After the Copsey brothers helped build the first jail in Lower Lake, California in 1876 they went out and partied a bit too hard at a local saloon and subsequently were the first to be jailed inside of it.

We know Ancient Egyptians liked cats, partially for their ability to protect homes from vermin, but did you know they were so sacred that killing one, even accidentally, could be punishable by death?

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Sea otters have pockets under their arms and often carry their favorite rock in them wherever they go to easily break open clams and other shellfish and bring food back to the surface.

Squirrels will adopt other squirrel babies if they are abandoned, especially if the orphaned pups are closely related to them.

The Pillsbury Doughboy’s real name is Poppin’ Fresh.

There are libraries in Los Angeles that allow kids to read to pay off their late fees.

A ‘tittle’ is the name of the superscript dot over the lowercase letter ‘i’ or ‘j’.

Steve Wilhite, the creator of the Graphics Interchange Format and the world’s first animated GIF of a rotating globe in 1987, said that “The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations. They are wrong. It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’ End of story.”

The BASE in BASE jumping, is an acronym that stands for the four categories of fixed objects you can jump from including a building, antenna, span and earth.