1.   Billionaire David Tepper bought a beachfront mansion for $43.5 million in 2010 from a former boss of his who denied him a promotion. Tepper then had the mansion completely demolished to make room for a mansion twice its size.

2.   Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly designed a circular shape bridge on Garźon, Uruguay, called the Laguna Garźon Bridge, to force drivers to slow down, and allows for pedestrian access along the one-way circular route.

3.   Mexico has the highest per capita consumption of carbonated soft drinks in 2019.

4.   Some people in India and Pakistan smoke scorpion to get high.

5.   A single serving of oysters contains more zinc than the daily recommended intake.

6.   Many species of bats give birth to only one pup per year.

7.   It’s illegal to fall asleep under a hairdryer in Florida, even if you’re the salon owner.

8.   Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.

9.   The escolar is a deep-sea fish that contains a waxy ester called gempylotoxin, which can cause oily diarrhea in humans if consumed in large quantities.

10.   Roy Sullivan holds a Guinness World Record after surviving seven different lightning strikes.

11.   There is a town in Canada called "Dildo."

12.   On October 22, 1911, Captain Carlo Piazza of the Italian Army made history by using an aircraft in warfare for the first time. During a reconnaissance mission of Turkish forces in the Italo-Turkish War of 1911-12, Piazza flew a Blériot monoplane from Tripoli to Azzia in Libya.

13.   The Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef system, can be seen from outer space. It's so big, astronauts are like, "Hey, look at that giant underwater garden!"

14.   The term "24-karat gold" refers to pure gold, while 14-karat gold contains 14 parts gold and 10 parts other metals.

15.   Peanuts aren’t technically nuts.

16.   A cat named Stubbs was the mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska for 20 years.

17.   The world records for the most consecutive stairs climbed on the head is 36 stairs by Li Longlong (China).

18.   During 1959, you need to be shorter than 5 feet and 11 inches to become an astronaut.

19.   Iguanas have a third eye. It's true; iguanas have a third eye smack bang in the middle of their forehead. It's called a parietal eye, and it can't see any details, just brightness. It's also handy for detecting movement from above, such as a hungry diving bird.

20.   The United States has the highest fees in the world to renounce citizenship at $2,350.

21.   The tradition of the bride carrying a bouquet of flowers began in ancient times as a way to ward off evil spirits.

22.   Glass is 100% recyclable and can be recycled over and over again.

23.   Facebook, Youtube, Instagram and Pinterest are all banned in China.

24.   Queen Elizabeth II is a trained mechanic.

25.   According to U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, there are more than 1,900 insect species used as food.

26.   In medieval Europe, it was believed that carrying a rabbit's foot would bring good luck. Unfortunately, it probably wasn't too lucky for the rabbit.

27.   If you took one cent and doubled your money every day, you would be a millionaire in just 28 days.

28.   Some plants can grow up to 100 meters tall. The tallest known tree is a coast redwood in California that stands at 379 feet tall. It's hard not to feel small standing next to something so grand.

29.   Bobby Driscoll, Disney child actor known for voicing Peter Pan, died penniless and alone at 31 in an abandoned building. His body went unclaimed, and he was buried in an unmarked grave.

30.   In the UK, there is a town called Sandwich, which is where the eponymous food was first popularized.

31.   The vampire ground finch native to the Gálapagos Islands drinks the blood of other birds.

32.   October is the most popular month to get married in the United States, followed by June and August.

33.   In 2008, a woman in Sweden married the Berlin Wall because she claimed to have a physical and emotional connection with it.

34.   It's illegal to hold a salmon under suspicious circumstances in the United Kingdom. It's called the Salmon Act 1986.

35.   A group of frogs is called an army.

36.   A teratoma is a rare type of tumour that can contain tissues such as hair, teeth, muscle, and bone.

37.   Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to power a TV for two hours.

38.   The world's largest producer of coffee is Brazil, followed by Vietnam.

39.   In July 2021, geologists Manas Banerjee and Richard Kapeta, along with their team, discovered the world's largest uncut emerald at the Kagem mine in Zambia's Copperbelt Province. Weighing an extraordinary 7,525 carats (equivalent to 1.505 kg or 3 lbs and 5.09 oz), the emerald is a remarkable find.

40.   Bananas are technically berries, strawberries and raspberries are not.

41.   The smallest country in the world is Vatican City, which is only 121 acres. It's like a tiny city-state within a city-state!

42.   Fossils of a giant penguin have been discovered that stood over 5 feet tall and weighed in at over 176 pounds.

43.   Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci is the most expensive painting ever sold at public auction for $450.3 million.

44.   The California roll was invented in Canada and not in California.

45.   There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than there are atoms in the known universe. That's a lot of different ways to play!

46.   Rowan Atkinson is the voice of Zazu in The Lion King.

47.   On August 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, launched the world's first website - http://info.cern.ch/. It was a simple text-based page providing information about the World Wide Web project, which has since revolutionized the world.

48.   Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

49.   Malcolm Myatt suffered a stroke in 2004, and since then, he can no longer feel sadness because the part of his brain controlling his emotion was destroyed.

50.   The official state slogan for Nebraska is "Nebraska: Honestly, it's not for everyone."