One of Nintendo's first products was a love/lie detector. It was offered in comic book ads, long before thier iconic plumber came to the scene.

Sniper uniforms never have zippers or buttons on the front. Snipers spend a lot of time crawling on their stomachs, which would damage buttons and zippers.

IKEA is an acronym which stands for Ingvar Kamprad Elmtaryd Agunnaryd, which is the founder’s name, farm where he grew up, and hometown.

You are more likely to have nightmares if you’re cold.

The voice actor of SpongeBob and the voice actor of Karen, Plankton’s computer wife, have been married since 1995.

The whole first episode+ of Spongebob is voiced by 4 people and they do live readings of episodes.

CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien were contemporaries and shared manuscripts with each other. Not unlike Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, who were also contemporaries but rivals. XD

Snails, slugs, and earthworms are hermaphrodites. That way any encounter can be used to breed.

for every human in the world there is one million ants

A dense, freezing fog is called pogonip. (In the mountains of the western United States, the fog condenses into tiny, biting ice particles in extremely cold weather. The English-speaking settlers who encountered this unpleasant and sometimes scary phenomenon when they went out West in the 1800s needed a word for it. They borrowed "payinappih" ("cloud") from Shoshone, altering it to "pogonip.")

sharks can never stop moving! swimming keeps water going through their gills so if they stop they suffocate :- (

The magnetic poles of Uranus are along it's equator.

Something I learned today was that dolphins have names for each other. How they found that out, I have no idea, lol, but I thought it was cute.

The first movie to appear on DVD was Twister.

Owls can't truly rotate their heads 360 degrees.

Their actual range of motion is along the lines of 270 degrees and they have special neck vertebrae to prevent everything in their neck from being constricted in doing so.

united kingdom's national food is chicken tikka masala