The electric chair was invented in 1881 by a dentist named Alfred P. Southwick, after hearing a story about a drunk man who died after touching a live generator.

According to National Geographic, there might be no more redheads by the year 2060.

Dennis Rodman's father had 29 children with 16 different women.

At the end of each season, Louis Vuitton burns all of their unsold merchandise.

Botanically speaking, strawberries and raspberries aren't actually berries. Since they come from a single flower with more than one ovary, they are considered an aggregate fruit.

Science suggests that women really do need more sleep than men. A study of 210 middle-aged men and women found that women officially need more sleep than men and that a lack of sleep leads to greater health issues in women than in men. Professor Jim Horne, director of the Sleep Research Center at Loughborough University, said: “We found that for women, poor sleep is strongly associated with high levels of psychological distress and greater feelings of hostility, depression, and anger.”

Tesla was able to perform integral calculus in his head, and it made many of his teachers think he was cheating.

There are approximately 40,000 toilet-related injuries in the US every year.

Synesthesia is a neurological condition where people may see numbers or letters in color, or can actually "see" sound and music.

At age 11, Benjamin Franklin basically came up with the idea of the modern-day flipper.

At the bottom of the Grand Canyon, one Native American tribe still takes up residence.

Many adult butterflies never have an excretion -- instead, they use all they eat for energy.

LEGO heads have holes at the top in case a child swallows one of them, they could still theoretically breathe.

In 2002, a 14 year old school drop out named William Kamkwamba used library books to teach himself how to build a solar powered water pump. The pump supplied drinkable water to his village.

In 1918, pink was considered a strong color (often associated with boys), while blue was considered more feminine.

A 19-year-old named Iga Jasica woke up during her brain surgery in Poland: She said she felt no pain, and asked her doctor how the surgery was going.

If you fold a piece of paper 103 times, it would be the diameter of the observable universe.

Scientists believe that on some planets, high temperatures and pressure convert atmospheric methane gas, meaning that on Jupiter and Saturn it actually rains diamonds.

Heroin was once a perfectly acceptable medicine prescribed by doctors for common ailments like coughs to headaches.

Fifteen monkeys escaped a primate research center in Japan by using trees as catapults over the electric fence.

The most commonly reported dream is dreaming that your partner is cheating on you.

High heeled shoes were first worn by men to make them taller and therefore more masculine.

There are frogs in Western Ghats, India that are known as the dancing frogs. The males stretch out their hind legs one at a time to attract females.

Cats only meow to communicate with humans.