There is a snake, called the boomslang, whose venom causes you to bleed out from every orifice on your body. You may even turn blue from internal bleeding, and it can take up to 5 days to die from the bleeding.
When a Google employee dies, their spouses receive half pay from the company for 10 years and their children US$1,000 per month until they turn 19.
The average cost to turn over a hotel room in the U.S. and keep it operational is between US$30 to US$40 a day.
Sheep have a field of vision of around 300 degrees, allowing them to see behind themselves without having to turn their head.
About 46,000 square miles of arable land turn to desert every year due to climate change and practices such as forest clear-cutting.
Viruses are not alive: They do not have cells, they cannot turn food into energy, and without a host they are just inert packets of chemicals.
When notified of his selection for the Nobel , Martin Luther King Jr. announced he would turn over the prize money to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.
About half of Americans born at the turn of the 20th century had blue eyes. Today, only about 1 in 6 Americans has them.