In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
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In the wake of Goat Simulator's popularity, 'Rock Simulator 2014' was developed and released. Gameplay simulates life as a rock.
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There are over 16,251 full-service restaurants in the vicinity of NYC. You could visit one every day for 40 years and still not have visited them all. This excludes counter service restaurants and cafeterias.
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Singapore has the world’s highest percentage of millionaires, with one out of every six households having at least $1,000,000 US dollars in disposable wealth.
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A man called Dean Karnazes ran 350 miles in 80 hours with no sleep, ran a marathon in the South Pole in -25 °C temperatures without snowshoes, and ran 50 marathons in 50 states in 50 days.
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Disney's first choice to play Jack Sparrow was Jim Carrey.
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