In 2014, a college in upstate New York started offering classes on the sociology of Miley Cyrus.
6
In Mohave County, Arizona, if someone is caught stealing soap, they must wash themselves with it until it has gone.
23
Worker bees must visit around 4,000 flowers in order to make one tablespoon of honey.
5
According to a study by the National Science Foundation, only half of Americans believe in evolution, and one in 4 don't know that the Earth orbits the Sun.
14
There are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, but a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
20
In 1918, a homing pigeon saved over 190 American soldiers by delivering a message to nearby support despite having been shot through the breast, blinded in one eye, covered in blood, and with a leg hanging on by just a tendon.
22