A few individuals give new meaning to the idea of spending forever in the library—their skin binds three of the books in Harvard’s 15-million-volume collection.
Without extensive genetic testing, Harvard librarians still do not have the “foggiest notion” of how many volumes wrapped in human hide exist throughout the system, says Director of University Libraries Sidney Verba ’53. But they have identified three such volumes in the Langdell Law Library, Countway Library of Medicine, and the Houghton Collection. The three books range in content from medieval law to Roman poetry to French philosophy.

Ben & Jerry’s (ice cream) has a graveyard where all of its discontinued flavors are buried

Bilinguals can be dyslexic in one language but no the other.

At least once a day your immune system destroys a cell that would have become cancer if it lived.

A black Nigerian couple gave birth to a “miracle” blond white baby. Albinoism has been ruled out, it is more likely that there has been some other mutation that’s happened to produce this coloring.

There’s a flower that smells like chocolate it’s called Cosmos Atrosanguineus

Each one of us have stripes on our body called Blaschko’s lines. These are visible only under ultraviolet light.

Faking confidence can positively change your brain chemistry and your life.