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.

You can pause a YouTube video and hit the comma key to go back one frame or the period key to move forward a frame at a time.

When you eat a pineapple it eats you back. Pineapples are carriers of bromelain, an enzyme that breaks down proteins.

Owl legs are this long.

Flamingo knees are tucked up underneath their feathers close to their body. The part that looks like their knee is actually their ankle!

Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life. When Russi Taylor became the voice of Minnie Mouse in 1986, she fell in love with Wayne Allwine, who had been voicing Mickey Mouse for the past decade. The feeling was mutual and they tied the knot in 1991.

The longest interval between the births of twins is 87 days. In June 2012, Maria Jones-Elliot gave birth to her daughter Amy, 4 months premature. Amy’s twin sister, Katie, was patient and waited to be born nearly three months later.

Fleas can jump up to 200 times their body length or 20 inches (half a meter) horizontally. That would be like a 6 foot tall human jumping 1,200 feet or 366 meters from a standstill.

Heating magnets makes them weaker and eventually lose their magnetism. Cooling magnets make them stronger until around -130°C ( -200°F) at which point the magnetic strength dips a bit below room temperature strength.

The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland. Although it's a fabled creature, the mythical unicorn was chosen because of its association with dominance and chivalry as well as purity and innocence in Celtic mythology.