There’s a tiny little island in the Philippines called Vulcan Point Island that is an island within a lake, within an island, within a lake, within an island in the ocean.

'In a jiffy' is a common slang term for 'quickly' or 'a moment' but jiffy is also a unit of measurement in physics.

2050 is as far away as 1990

The 2020 Groundhog Day results are in and aside from the outlier, Shubenacadie Sam in Nova Scotia the remaining North American ground squirrels didn’t see their shadows, predicting an early spring.

The vocal distress signal ‘Mayday!’ comes from the French term ’M’aider,’ which means ‘help me.’

If you are a woman who is very old, very young, completely broke, rich, single, stubborn, hangs out with other women, has ever had an argument, has too many children, has no children, has a birthmark, or has had milk turn sour in your fridge, you may have been considered a witch in 1692.

Breaking eye contact makes you a better conversationalist.

According to an extensive, 2011 study by National Geographic, the average human is a 28-year-old, right-handed, Han Chinese man who makes under $12,000 a year and owns a cell phone, but has no bank account.

In 1930, a patent was issued to Helene Shelby for a giant skeleton with glowing eyes designed to make criminals confess.

‘Doppelgänger’ is an old German word that originally referred to an apparition of a living person, like if the ‘ghost’ of your grandmother walked past you even though she wasn’t dead at the time. It was also believed that seeing your own doppelgänger was a sign of your imminent death.