Facts

Here are some Facts and GIFs from Thailand’s massive Lantern Festival.

*Individually there’s four, because two go up and two go down.

Listen, I’ve got an announcement directed at beard-haters. You know how you think beards are boring and/or disgusting nests of bacteria and leftovers?

Losing an hour of sleep after Daylight Saving Time is linked to a 24% increase in hospital admissions for heart attacks.

Christine Nicol is a professor of animal welfare at Bristol University, who says that chickens have “many hidden depths.”

The voice actor for Mickey Mouse married the voice actor for Minnie Mouse.

At one point, O.J. Simpson was seriously considered to play The Terminator, but was dropped after producers thought the Simpson looked and acted “too nice.”

Wednesday Addams’ middle name is Friday.

About 30 people get bitten by squirrels in New York City every year.

Not to be too sappy, but this is the quote that has always stuck with me and makes me appreciate that I am, in fact, living in the good old days right now...

In the early days of the US Post Office, people began “mailing” their children through rural routes. If they were under the 11-pound weight limit, delivery personnel would carry them along to their local destination.

A typical resident of Scotland likes to drink, use filthy words, and speak openly and honestly about whatever is on their mind.

His human form was a small middle eastern man who was more interested in rape and murder than marriage. The Maitland’s car crash was also much more brutal.

The internet speed at NASA is 91 Gb per second, about 2,000 times faster than the average household internet speed of 50Mb.

Interesting and cool stories from around the net.

The Kitti hog-nosed bat is the world’s smallest bat and weighs even less than a penny.