12 Trivia Facts With A Tensile Strength Stronger Than Steel

The first country to write into law a woman‘s right to vote was New Zealand, all the way back in 1893.

Sinterklaas instead keeps it simple, and rides a regular old horse.

Chinese moso bamboo can grow up to an inch and a half per hour, making it the fastest growing plant on earth.

Concerned with how it portrayed Italian-Americans, real-life mafioso Joe Colombo kindly suggested producer Al Ruddy remove the words “mafia” and “la Cosa Nostra” on behalf of the Italian-American Civil Rights League.

It might not be your first guess, but apparently, narwhals purr.

Military casualties in World War II were immense, at roughly 21 million to 25 million. Civilian casualties, however, went well beyond that, estimated at 50 million to 55 million.

Plenty of the sound effects you hear in TV and movies were recorded after the fact by what are called “Foley artists.” They use tools, random objects and plain old ingenuity to recreate everyday sounds like footsteps and rain, or to create from scratch sufficiently visceral splats, crunches and punches.

No need for sonograms here. Every time a nine-banded armadillo gives birth, it’s the exact same outcome: four identical, same-sex quadruplets.

More people are familiar with the movie version, but in the original tale from The Arabian Nights, Aladdin's adventures take place in China.

If you’ve made a faux pas, you’ve made an embarrassing misstep. Or, in the literal translation from French, a “false step.”

According to legend, cutting off one of a Hydra’s heads is just going to exacerbate the problem, as two would grow in its place.

The tooth-rotting snack-food sugar bomb extraordinaire that is cotton candy was, ironically, invented by a dentist.