It would take around three years pedaling a bicycle (without stopping) to reach the moon.

The Masai tribe (an ethnic African group found in Kenya and Tanzania) have an unusual way of greeting friends: they spit on one another.

Banana Slug Festival- Mount Rio, California hosts a slug fest where rather than curse the 10-inch yellow mollusks, as prolific here as cockroaches in New York, the natives celebrate them with an annual festival that includes slug races and a recipe contest that leaves the judges gagging or rushing home to brush their teeth.

Takara Tomy, Japanese toymaker, invented a piggy bank that explodes and scatters all your coins if the owner forgets to "feed" it. The "piggy-bomb" aims to promote savings.

Paul Sacco, a U.S. judge, implements an original punishment for young people who come to court and make too much noise: forces them to listen for an hour to Barney the Dinosaur or Barry Manilow.

In Alaska it's legal to hunt bears but you aren't allowed to wake one to take a picture.

Your nose can distinguish over 10,000 different odors.

There was the Quetzalcoatlus, a flying animal the size of an airplane in prehistoric times.

The Polish city of Osinow Dolny has only 200 inhabitants, but has 150 hairdressers.

In 1938 the United States began selling the first product manufactured with nylon, the toothbrush.

When the herbalist Li Ching-Yuen died in 1933, all newspapers around the world covered the news of his death. According to his own testimony, he was 197 years old. However, the official government record showed his date of birth to be 1677, making him 256 years old. He himself owed his long life to peace of mind and believed that everyone can live a century long life by realization of inner calm.

In ancient Babylon, about 2000 BC, if a doctor accidentally produced the patient death was operating, it punishable by amputation of the hand.

The Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe dueled with a fellow student, who cut off his nose almost completly.Brahe had a metal prosthesis for the rest of his life.

David Leggat, 55, was locked in the bathroom bowling club "Kittybrewster and Woodside" in Aberdeen (Scotland) for 4 days.

On March 3, 1876 in Bath Country, Kentucky (USA), fell from the sky pieces similar to beef substance. None of the researchers could identify what exactly it was.

Francesco Lentini, a Sicilian born in 1889, had three legs, four feet and sixteen toes. He also had two sets of genitals.