
Cosmic dust adds about 40,000 metric tons per year to Earth's mass.

If Michaels Phelps was a country, he would rank ahead of 97 other nations in Olympic gold medals won.

Actor Charlie Chaplin once lost a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest. He finished third.

Martin Luther King, Jr. won a Grammy for a spoken word album protesting the Vietnam War.
Japanese people consider sleeping at work to be honorable, as it shows dedication to hard work. They call it 'inemuri' which means 'being present while sleeping.'

Just under three quadrillion basketballs could fit in the Grand Canyon.

Amerigo Vespucci, for whom many historians believe America was named, was an Italian merchant.

You could ice skate on one of Jupiter’s moons, Europa, which is covered in ice. An Axel jump would take you 6.7m in the air.
Sweden is so efficient, only one percent of its garbage ends up in a landfill.

Due to a gene mutation, cats can't taste sweetness.
The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses, making it the longest national anthem in the world.

Bees can recognize individual human faces.