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It is possible to determine a person's gender from a fingerprint. Women secrete twice as many amino acids as men and in a distinct distribution, studies say.
When dropped from the same height, a hardened steel ball will actually bounce higher than a rubber ball of the same size.
A solar plane made history in 2016 after completing a round-the-world trip using no fossil fuel
Music, painting, poetry, literature and architecture, all used to be part of the modern Olympic Games from 1912 to 1948.
270 scientists re-ran 100 studies published in the top psychology journals in 2008. Only half the studies could be replicated successfully.
In 2016, a man blaming a game company for "ruining his life" with game addiction, crashed a car into their head office in South Korea.
After being the King of Spain, Naples and Sicily, the elder brother of Napoleon Bonaparte moved to New Jersey.
The most skips over a single rope in three minutes by a team is 563 and was achieved by E-Jump Fuji (Japan) in Fuji, Shizuoka, Japan, on 27 January 2017.
There's up to US$60 billion in sunken treasure sitting at the bottom of the world's oceans.
New Mexico isn't really named after Mexico, since it was named in 1563 and Mexico didn't drop its "New Spain" name until 1821.
Microsoft had offered to buy Yahoo for US$44.6 billion in 2008. Yahoo rejected the offer. In 2016, it sold for just US$4.8 billion.
If a self-driving car gets in an accident that is clearly its fault, the owner doesn't pay damages. The manufacturers do.
Jose Cuervo is still produced on land granted to the family by the King of Spain in 1758. It was the first business to receive a license to produce tequila and is the oldest family run business in Mexico.
A man in California got a personalized license plate that said "No Plate" and received more than 2500 parking tickets.
Data is a plural term, so we should write "the data are" not "the data is." Datum is singular.
Most of Las Vegas' iconic hotels and even its famous welcome sign aren't technically located in the city of Las Vegas. They are in an unincorporated township called Paradise, Nevada.
A 2016 Twitter hack found that 123456 was the site's most common password, more than 120,000 people were using it.
Winston Churchill was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the U.S.
Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Super Mario Bros. and Donkey Kong, is not allowed to bike to work because his safety is too important to Nintendo.
Barack Obama was the first sitting President to publish an academic paper.
2,520 is the smallest number that can be exactly divided by all the numbers 1 to 10.
"Mortimer Mouse" was the original name of Mickey Mouse before Walt Disney's wife, Lillian, convinced him to change it.
Kangaroos' tails act as a third leg rather than just a balancing strut.
Outbreaks of the Black Death (bubonic plague) continue to this day in various parts of the world.
Pogonophobia is the fear of beards.
Tardigrades are the most durable of known organisms, withstanding temperature ranges from −458 °F (−272 °C) to 300 °F (150 °C), and pressures 6 times greater than those found in the deepest ocean trenches.
When Eminem won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, he didn't attend the ceremony. He was taking a nap after watching cartoons with his daughter.
The RackNerd DC02 network is very good. I love RackNerd DC2.
Which locations is your favourite?