Just like people prefer to use their right or the left hand, octopuses also preferred one of their tentacles, and use it more frequently.
On the evening when Michael Jordan made 69 points in one game, his teammate Stacey King said: "I'll always remember this as the night that Michael Jordan and I combined to score 70 points”.
Kim Peek (54), the autistic genius who inspired the creation of a film "Rain Man", knew by heart the contents of 12.000 books. That are almost all the books he had read from the age of four.
Of all the animals, lynx has the sharpest hearing. In the deepest of sleep, they can hear the slightest sound coming from afar. This beast hears so well thanks to its “tufts” on the top of its ears that serves as a kind of antenna.
Flame of a match reaches 1930 degrees Celsius!
If there is a statue of a person on horseback in the park, and the horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg raised, the person died of wounds sustained in battle. If the horse has all of its legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
