AMAZING Facts

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In 1974, the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis published a paper titled "The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of 'Writer's Block.'" It contained a total of zero words.

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Boring, Oregon and Dull, Scotland have been sister cities since 2012. In 2017, they added Bland Shire, Australia to their "League of Extraordinary Communities."

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Some cats are allergic to humans.

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Queen Elizabeth II is a trained mechanic.

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Tsundoku is the act of acquiring books and not reading them.

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Kea parrots warble together when they're in a good mood, making them the first known non-mammal species to communicate with infectious laughter.

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Ravens in captivity can learn to talk better than parrots.

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Melbourne gave some of its trees email addresses so residents could report problems. Instead, the trees received love letters.

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An estimated 1 million dogs in the U.S. have been named primary beneficiary in their owners' wills.

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The Russians showed up 12 days late to the 1908 Olympics in London because they were using the Julian calendar instead of the Gregorian calendar.

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In Great Britain and Japan, black cats are perceived as auspicious. In the English Midlands, new brides are given black cats to bless their marriage, and the Japanese believe that black cats are good luck—particularly for single women.

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During World War I, a Canadian soldier made a black bear his pet and named her Winnipeg. "Winnie" was later a resident of the London Zoological Gardens where she was an adored attraction, especially to a boy named Christopher Robin, son of author A.A. Milne. The boy even named his teddy bear after her.

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Neil Armstrong's astronaut application arrived a week past the deadline. A friend slipped the tardy form in with the others.

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Space has a distinct smell: a bouquet of diesel fumes, gunpowder, and barbecue. The aroma is mostly produced by dying stars.

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If you replace "W" with "T" in "What, Where and When", you get the answer to each of them.

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The annual number of worldwide shark bites is 10 times less than the number of people bitten by other people in New York.

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