1. Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire.
2. Nintendo was originally a company who trades cards.
3. Your chances of being killed by a vending machine are actually twice as large as your chance of being bitten by a shark.
4. Scotland's national animal is the unicorn (Will I ever get to see a unicorn? I hope so...)
5. Remember that Humpty Dumpty is showed as an egg on films and chidren's books? Well, nowhere in the Humpty Dumpty Nursery Rhyme says that he was an egg (Exactly!).
6. John Tyler, the 10th president of the US, was born in 1790. He has a grandson that is alive today (○_○).
7. In 1986, a volcanic lake in Cameroon, Africa burped a C02 gas cloud that killed 1,746 people in minutes.
8. Being hit by lightning causes weird skin designs called "Lichtenberg figures." (Turns out that lightning has a secret talent!)
9. In Ancient Rome, the punishment for killing one's father was the death penalty, consisting of being sewn up in a sack along with a viper, a dog, and a cock.
10. Holding a vibrator against a person's throat relaxes the vocal muscles, thereby improving their voice quality.
