In 2006, an Australian man tried to sell New Zealand on eBay. The price rose to $3,000 before eBay shut it down.
In Japan, letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered good luck.
Prairie dogs say hello with kisses.
The medical term for ice cream headaches is sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia.
Sleeping through winter is hibernation, while sleeping through summer is estivation.
Marie Curie’s notebooks are still radioactive. Researchers hoping to view them must sign a disclaimer.
The Scots have a word for that panicky hesitation you get when introducing someone whose name you can’t remember: tartle.
Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can. When he passed away in 2008, his ashes were buried in one.
In 1979, Japan offered new British PM Margaret Thatcher 20 “karate ladies” for protection at an economic summit. She declined.
In 1493, Columbus thought he saw mermaids. They were “not as pretty as they are depicted, for somehow in the face they look like men.” (Experts think they were probably manatees.)
