August 2017

Dogs can shake 70 percent of the water off their fur in four seconds, thanks to their loose hanging skin

Venezuela had the world’s 4th highest GDP per capita in 1950, trailing only the United States, Switzerland, and New Zealand.

For 249 years, the tallest building in the world was Lincoln Cathedral.

In English, zero quantities are plural by default. Therefore, you should write “0 results found.”

The world’s smallest test tube has a diameter 10,000 times narrower than a human hair.

New Zealand’s two main islands (the North Island and the South Island) had no official names until 2009.

The father of India’s missile programme had visited Switzerland back in 2006. Upon his arrival, Switzerland declared May 26th as Science Day.

Generally considered to be the world’s first novel, The Tale of Genji was written in Japan around AD 1000 by Murasaki Shikibu.

Wembley Stadium in England has the most toilets of any one building, at 2618.

Up until the early 1800s, dentures were primarily made from the teeth of dead soldiers.