The "sandwich" is named after an English nobleman, the 4th Earl of Sandwich. This goes back to the fact that he had sandwiches made as a snack while playing cards.
The meteor responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs hit the coast of Yucatán, Mexico. The crater is still preserved today.
Charlie Chaplin once took part in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest and lost.
Inhabitants of the Ivory Coast are called Ivorians. The term comes from the official country name "Cote d'Ivoire".
All clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" show 4:20.
Sunsets only exist because the Earth's atmosphere scatters the light like a prism.
Identical twins have different fingerprints.
Laughing too hard can cause a heart attack or choking, which can literally make you laugh yourself to death.
People are born without kneecaps. These only develop in the first 3 years of life.
The Sahara Desert is larger than the mainland of the USA.
Humans inhale between 6-9 liters of oxygen per minute.
Stars can swallow up planets.
The Leaning Tower of Pisa is actually a bell tower.
Due to their chemical composition, comets smell like rotten eggs and urine.
The movie Titanic lasts just as long as the real ship sank.
It's raining diamonds on Saturn.
Niagara Falls has never frozen since 1964.
The soap opera is so named because the detergent manufacturer Procter & Gamble broadcast a soap opera called "Ma Perkins" on the radio for housewives in 1933.
The Eiffel Tower in Paris shrinks by 15 centimeters in the cold.
The shortest war in history (England against Zanzibar) lasted only 38 minutes.
The Tyrannosaurus Rex probably had feathers.
The Tetris song is based on the Russian folk song "Korobeiniki".