Between 2007 and 2012, Bill Gates gave away $28 billion; saving 6 million lives.
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The Beatles wrote into their contracts for American concerts that they would not play in front of segregated audiences.
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The hole in the soda can tab is actually used to hold a straw in place and stop it from rising.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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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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