Crazy Facts

The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight…

The names of the two stone lions in front of the New York Public Library are Patience and Fortitude. They were named by then-mayor Fiorello…

The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million.

The newspaper serving Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, the home of Rocky and Bullwinkle, is the Picayune Intellegence.

The Neanderthal’s brain was bigger than yours is.

The numbers ‘172’ can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

The pancreas produces Insulin.

The only planet that rotates on its side like a barrel is Uranus. The only planet that spins backwards relative to the others is Venus.

The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging…

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.