12 Facets of Trivia Glinting in the Light As You Rotate Them

Before baking, bagels go through another process that gives them their famous texture: boiling.

You might feel bad for a mouse in a cage, but it’s got better odds than it does outside: Most wild mice won't live past the age of one.

Like the rings of a tree, the tusks of a woolly mammoth can show how long they lived.

The first president to add a phone to the Oval Office was Herbert Hoover in 1929.

…isn’t a lady at all — it’s a nickname for the Bank of England, which has been located on Threadneedle Street for over 300 years.

The Wire Fox Terrier has won Best in Show at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show 15 times, more than any other breed.

The first ever “motel” was the “Milestone Mo-Tel,” which opened in California in 1925.

It doesn’t seem particularly helpful for separating it from other Mexican dishes, but “enchilada” comes from the verb enchilar, or “season with chili.”

Germany was the first country to enact Daylight Saving Time, in 1916.

The meringue-and-fruit cake known as a pavlova is named for ballerina Anna Pavlova.

It’s Louisiana. And, in fact, they have two: mayhaw jelly, and Louisiana sugar cane jelly.

The practitioners of Japanese shiatsu massage were typically blind.