Gorillas can catch human colds and other illnesses.
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London's King's Cross railway station has a platform 9 3/4 in dedication to Harry Potter.
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Macaques monkeys in Japan learned to steal purses and wallets, take out the coins, and use them to buy drinks and snacks from vending machines.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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There’s an internet-enabled jacket which gives you a “hug” every time a Facebook friend likes your status.
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Scientist Niels Bohr was “given a house next door to the Carlsberg brewing company, and had a pipeline running from the brewery into the house so that he could have a never-ending supply of fresh beer on tap”.
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A man sued Bank of America for erroneously foreclosing on his home and won. When they didn’t pay the fees, he foreclosed their bank.
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