1. When hummingbirds reach puberty, the males’ beaks grow longer and sharper. They use them to stab other males in the throat to secure mating spots.

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It turns out Norwegian and English are very similar languages. Click to read the full fact.

1. The winner of 2011 Ig Nobel Peace Prize was Arturas Zuokas, the mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania, for demonstrating that the problem of illegally parked luxury cars can be solved by running them over with an armored tank.

Elephants can hear with their feet. They are specialists in seismic communication, relying upon sound waves that travel within the surface of the ground

1. Due to inbreeding amongst the Ptolemies, Cleopatra of Egypt had only two pairs of ...

1. The word "Adrenalin" - which would become genericized as "adrenaline" - is actually a trademarked name for the hormone "epinephrine."

1. A lady named Concepcion Picciotto protested in front of the White House for 35 years, the longest continuous act of political protest in the United States.

The Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá is located over 600 feet underground.

There is an unwritten English rule concerning ablaut reduplication, or the altering of the interior vowels of a repeated word. When repeating words, the

1. The first attempt to summit the peak of Gangkhar Puensum in Bhutan failed because the team could not find the mountain.

1. Californium-252 costs about $27,000,000 a gram, making it one of the most expensive elements known to man.

1. There's a small town called Dinosaur, Colorado (USA). Some of its street names include Brontosaurus Blvd, Brontosaurus Bypass, Stegosaurus Freeway, and Tyrannosaurus Trail.

1. An airplane crashed into the Empire State Building in 1945. Among other damages, plane parts severed the cables for an elevator and the woman (Betty Lou Oliver) inside fell over 70 stories. She lived and holds the world record for the longest survived elevator fall.

1. In WWI, over 600 German soldiers burned to death at Fort Douaumont because someone tried to heat up coffee with flamethrower-fuel, resulting in a fire that spread to the ammunition.

1. The Old Testament says farmers should leave the edges of their fields unharvested for the poor and traveling foreigners to eat.

1. Foamy pee indicates there is a protein in the urine and could be a sign of a serious kidney problem.

1. There is about 0.2 milligrams of gold in our bodies, most of which is in our blood.

1. Evidence does not support a significant role for spicy food or coffee in the development of peptic ulcers.