In a 2012 survey, almost 1/5 of children said they would be “embarrassed” if a friend saw them with a book.

If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

“Schmeat” is meat grown in a lab and derived from real animal cells. It is currently valued at $338, 000 per piece.

The 20-20-20 method (looking at something 20 feet away for 20 seconds every 20 minutes) is proven to stop eye strain and headaches.

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 world’s largest swimming pool is 1,013 meters long. Its deepest end reaches 115ft and it holds 66 million gallons of water.

In the US, 60% of nursing home residents never have visitors. More than 50% have no close relatives, and 46% have no living children.

H.H. Holmes renovated a 3-story hotel with stairways to nowhere and a maze of over 100 rooms with no windows. He killed 200 people in it.

27 million people are being held in modern-day slavery across the world, including 1 million children who are exploited by the sex trade.

In 2004, 200 women in India, armed with kitchen knives, murdered a serial rapist. Then every woman claimed responsibility for the murder.

Two 1903 paintings recently sold at auction for $590,000 – the paintings were in the famous “Dogs Playing Poker” series.

You can remember the value of Pi (3.1415926) by counting each word’s letters in “May I have a large container of coffee?”

Over 100 million people have played Call of Duty. More than 32.3 Quadrillion (32,300,000,000,000,000) shots have been fired in all COD games.

Life expectancy for Russian men has actually gone down over the past 40 years. A Russian male born today can expect to live an average 58 years.

If you toss a penny 10,000 times, it will not be heads 5,000 times, but more like 4,950. The heads picture weighs more, so it ends up on the bottom.