1.   velvet ant is a type of 3,000 species of wasps.

2.   There is a place in Yellowstone National Park called "Zone of Death" where a criminal could theoretically get away with any crime, including murder, because of a loophole in the Constitution of the United States.

3.   Dolly, the sheep, was the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer.

4.   The U.S. dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016. That’s three bombs every hour, 24 hours a day.

5.   Laotian rock rats were thought to be extinct for 11 million years until one was found for sale in a market in Laos in 2006.

6.   The largest cemetery in the world is the Wadi-us-Salaam located in the Shia holy city of Najaf, Iraq. The cemetery covers 1,485.5 acres and contains tens of millions of bodies.

7.   The world’s oldest hotel has been operating since 705 AD.

8.   The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef system and the world’s biggest single structure made by living organisms.

9.   In May of 2016, Barack Obama became the first sitting president to visit Hiroshima's Japanese city since the atomic bombing 74 years ago.

10.   Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia is the medical term for brain freeze.

11.   Breast cancer death rates declined 40% from 1989 to 2016 among women.

12.   Horror writer Stephen King has triskaidekaphobia, a phobia of the number 13.

13.   Late-night dancing was illegal in Japan until 2015.

14.   Many expensive Perfumes contain whale poop.

15.   There’s a helicopter taxi company in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

16.   Hatebeak is a death metal band whose lead singer is a parrot.

17.   No suspect was ever caught or charged for the 1982 Tylenol murders in Chicago that killed seven people.

18.   World War 2 was the deadliest conflict in human history, with an estimated total of 70-85 million people perished.

19.   Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your dinner begin to eat you.

20.   The word Holocaust is from the Greek words hólos, "whole" + καυστός kaustós, "burnt offering."

21.   Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989.

22.   Flamingos are not pink. They are born with grey feathers, which gradually turn pink in the wild because of a natural pink dye called canthaxanthin that they obtain from their diet of brine shrimp and blue-green algae.

23.   A man from Wisconsin has been banned from the internet in 2014 after sending a naked man to a neighbour's house through Craiglist.

24.   Armadillo shells are bulletproof.

25.   Venus does not have any natural satellites.

26.   The word ‘infant’ is from the Latin word infans, means ‘unable to speak.’

27.   Hollywood oldest working actress Connie Sawyer dies at 105-year-old.

28.   There's an existing health problem that affects thumb due to excessively playing video games. It's called Nintendo thumb, also known as Nintendonitis.

29.   A zoo in Cairo, Egypt, was accused of painting black stripes on a donkey to look like a zebra.

30.   A group of locusts is called a plague.

31.   Roughly 725 species of venomous snakes worldwide, only 250 can kill a human with one bite.

32.   The Grasshopper mouse is carnivorous, dining on insects, spiders, centipedes, scorpion, lizards, and even other mice. It is immune to various venom and howls like a wolf to claim its territory.

33.   Peladophobia is the fear of baldness.

34.   Boeing 777 is the world’s largest twinjet and the first commercial aircraft to be designed entirely with computer-aided design.

35.   Nomophobia is the fear of being away from your phone.

36.   Spiders are found worldwide on every continent except for Antarctica.

37.   There’s a hand sanitizer named, “Maybe You Touched Your Genitals.”

38.   70% of all the world's spices come from one country, India.

39.   The 'mare' in 'nightmare' was a female demon who suffocated people in their sleep by sitting on their chests.

40.   Huaso, the horse and Captain Alberto Larraguibel, set the high-jump world record on February 5, 1949, by jumping 2.74 m (8ft 1in). It is one of the longest-running unbroken sports records in history, at 70 years.

41.   The horned lizard can shoot blood from the corners of the eyes for a distance of up to 5 feet.

42.   The world's smallest elephant is the Borneo pygmy. An adult male measures 1.7-2.6 m (5 ft 6 in-8 ft 6 in) tall, whereas the female is 1.5-2.2 m (4 ft 11 in-7 ft 2 in) in height. The average estimated weight is 2,500 kg (5,500 lb).

43.   Audie Leon Murphy received the Medal of Honor at the age of 19.

44.   On March 30, 1867, Secretary of State William H. Seward agreed to purchase Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million, or 2 cents per acre. Some labeled the purchase as "Seward's Folly," as they contended that the United States had acquired useless land.

45.   Bill Gates has donated $50 billion to charity.

46.   Planet 55 Cancri e is made of diamond.

47.   The earliest recorded use of LOL was in the 1960s to mean 'little old lady.'

48.   Elvis Presley never wrote any of his songs.

49.   Africa is the only continent that is located in all four hemispheres.

50.   On April 18, 1930, BBC Radio news bulletin stated: "Good evening. Today is Good Friday. There is no news."