Chess was invented in India.

In Hong Kong, a betrayed wife is legally allowed to kill her husband if he cheats on her.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

The Ancient Mayans have predicted the world will end on December 21, 2012. They also worshipped a Corn God named Ah Mun.

When glass breaks it moves faster than 3,000 mph. To photograph this a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.

Even though it has an oasis image, Los Angeles is more like a desert, with an annual rainfall of only about 15 inches a year.

90% of women who walk into a department store turn to the right.

Originally, Nintendo was a playing card manufacturer.

Google got its name from the mathematical figure googol, which denotes the number ‘one followed by a hundred zeros’.

A giraffe has the same number of bones in it’s neck as a human.