Unbelievable Facts from Around the World: A Collection of Intriguing Tidbits
Ikea's top-selling furniture item of all time is the Billy bookcase. Afghanistan recently removed a mosque from its national flag in 2021. Bill Greason, a 101-year-old, is the last survivor from the Negro Leagues era of baseball. The Graeae sisters shared one eye and one tooth between them. Brazil nuts are the most radioactive common food. Angela Merkel became the German minister for women and youth in 1991. The Cassowary, an Australian bird, has been known to kill humans in the wild. Marsala is a fortified wine used in tiramisu. Words like ares, august, job, mobile, and polish have different meanings and pronunciations when capitalized. Berry, Chowns, Denyer, Ramsay, and Spencer are Green party MPs. Eildon Hills, Glastonbury Abbey, Mount Etna, and Richmond Castle are suggested burial/resting places of King Arthur. Jennifer Beals, Jessie Buckley, Helena Bonham Carter, and Elsa Lanchester all played the "bride" of Frankenstein. Azure Window in Malta, Darwin's Arch in the Galápagos, Lovers' Arch in Italy, and Toilet Bowl in Utah are celebrated rock formations that collapsed. Nocturnal lights, daylight discs, radar-visual, CE1, CE2, and CE3 refer to the scale of UFO sightings/encounters devised by J Allen Hynek. Songs with months in the title include January, August, September, November Rain, and December Will Be Magic Again.