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.
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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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In 2007, a Bosnian couple found out that they had been cheating on one another in online chatrooms... with each other.
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A singing birthday card has more computing power than the allied forces in 1945.
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When a drone bee mates with a queen, its ejaculation is so powerful that it can even be heard by the human ear.
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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