For the Romans, a big penis wasn’t a sign of manliness or sexual skill. All of the Roman heroes – mythological, political, or athletic – were portrayed as having small, compact genitalia, almost like pubescent boys. What we consider “well-endowed” was considered a sign of a barbarian or a fool.

There is a village in Kazakhstan where people started suddenly falling asleep for 5 days or longer, since 2010. BONUS FACT: Kazakh people are Asian, unlike portrayed in Borat; the people portraying Kazakhstan in the movie Borat were Romanian.

If you lose your pinky, you lose about 50 percent of your hand strength.

That the highest-paid athlete in history was a Roman charioteer by the name of Gaius Appuleius Diocles - who has won 1,462 four-horse races. The fortune he has accumulated from won races, if it was converted to Today's money, was equivalent to about 15 billion USD.

An alcoholic can actually die from withdrawal, known as Delirium Tremens where death occurs in 1% to 4% of cases, making alcoholism more dangerous to kick than cocaine addiction.

The Malcolm in the Middle family's name is never revealed in the show.

Running a mile burns 25% more calories than walking.

The cheapest Quarts watch is 10x more accurate than the most expensive mechanical watches.

Japanese porn industry is extremely short on male actors, as many as 10,000 women against only 70 men.

Mahatma Gandhi spoke English with an Irish accent, for one of his first teachers was an Irishman.

There's over 30 million slaves, globally, in 2015.

King Tutankhamun was a product of incest; his parents were brother and sister. He had a club foot, a severe overbite, womanly hips and enlarged breasts.

The word "honeymoon" originated from the tradition of giving newly weds a month's supply of mead on their wedding night.

Walter Keane was sued by his wife Margaret for claiming to be the painter of the "big eye waif" children, she personally created a painting in 53 minutes in the court room to prove her accusation.

US astronauts are required to learn Russian as part of their extensive training, and have to be able to run the ISS using Russian-language training manuals if necessary.

Helen Mirren used to do porn when she was young.

In Greece’s fight for independence, a Turkish garrison in Acropolis was besieged by Greek fighters. When the Turks ran low on bullets, they began to cut the marble columns to use the lead within as bullets. The Greeks sent them ammunition saying: “Here are bullets, don’t touch the columns.”

Women became the majority of college students starting in 1979. In the past decade women have accounted for about 57% of enrollment at degree-granting institutions.

In 2005, Michael Jordan woke up Bow Wow in the middle of the night who was sleeping over with Jordan's sons to ask who wore Allen Iverson shoes in his house. Bow Wow never saw those shoes again.

A few hundred years ago, women in Turkey could legally divorce their husbands if he didn't provide them with enough coffee.

The city of Cincinnati has a subway system that was built and never used.