Banshees, leprechauns, and vampires are regular characters in Irish lore but it’s the fairies, above most, who left their mark on the landscape.
Army ants that misinterpret the scent trails left by other ants will sometimes break from the crowd and march in circles. If enough ants join, they can form massive “death spirals.”
There’s a bridge between mainland China and Macau, where cars switch from left to right-hand drive and vice versa.
Right-handed people tend to chew food on the right side while left-handed tend to chew on the left side.
As late as 1850, most shoes were made on absolutely straight lasts, with no difference between the right and the left shoe.
There’s a colony in Brazil founded by 2,000 to 4,000 Confederate refugees who left the U.S. after losing the Civil War.
The Simpson’s co-creator Sam Simon died of terminal cancer and left most of his fortune to animal charities and feeding the hungry.
In 1892, over 200 people left Australia to create “New Australia,” a utopian socialist settlement in Paraguay.