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Artichokes are actually flower buds — if not harvested, they bloom into large purple flowers.
Spam is so popular in South Korea that gift sets of the canned meat are given during holidays.
The world's largest omelet was made with over 145,000 eggs in Portugal in 2012.
Pistachios are technically fruits, not nuts.
The oldest known alcoholic beverage is a fermented drink from China dating back to around 7000 BC.
Sunflower seeds are used to clean up radioactive contamination because the plants absorb heavy metals from soil.
The average American eats about 35 tons of food in their lifetime.
Asparagus can grow up to 10 inches in a single day under ideal conditions.
The original recipe for Coca-Cola included an estimated 9 milligrams of cocaine per glass.
Corn is grown on every continent except Antarctica.
The most expensive fruit in the world is the Yubari King melon from Japan, which has sold for over $45,000 at auction.
The last pharaoh of Egypt, Cleopatra VII, was of Macedonian Greek descent and was known for speaking nine languages.
Marco Polo's accounts of his travels to Asia introduced Europeans to concepts like paper money and coal burning.
The discovery of the Rosetta Stone in 1799 allowed scholars to decode Egyptian hieroglyphics for the first time.
The longest-reigning monarch in recorded history was Louis XIV of France, who ruled for 72 years and 110 days.
Ancient Romans used a heated bronze instrument called a cautery to seal wounds and stop bleeding during surgery.
The construction of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris took nearly 200 years, from 1163 to 1345.
The first known use of zero as a number was in India around the 5th century AD.
Pope Gregory XIII introduced the Gregorian calendar in 1582, which is still the most widely used civil calendar today.
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World whose existence is disputed.
Ancient Egyptian dentists used a mixture of oxen hooves, eggshells, and pumice as an early form of toothpaste.
The Domesday Book, commissioned by William the Conqueror in 1086, was the most comprehensive survey of England ever undertaken.
The samurai class in Japan was officially abolished in 1876 during the Meiji Restoration.
The Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered in caves near the Dead Sea, contain some of the oldest known copies of the Hebrew Bible.
Aspirin was originally derived from willow bark, which was used as a pain reliever for thousands of years before being synthesized.
The first vending machine was invented in ancient Egypt and dispensed holy water in exchange for a coin.
Sunglasses were invented in 12th-century China and were originally used by judges to hide their facial expressions in court.
The city of Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1453, marking the end of the Byzantine Empire.
The Bayeux Tapestry, depicting the Norman conquest of England in 1066, is 230 feet long and was likely created within a few years of the events.
Queen Victoria's wedding dress popularized the tradition of wearing white at weddings in Western culture.
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD preserved the city of Pompeii so well that loaves of bread were found intact.
The Silk Road was not a single road but a network of trade routes connecting China to the Mediterranean spanning over 4,000 miles.
The Code of Hammurabi, one of the oldest known sets of laws, was established around 1754 BC in ancient Babylon.
The Antikythera mechanism, discovered in a shipwreck off Greece, is an ancient analog computer used to predict astronomical positions.
The first recorded strike in history was by Egyptian tomb builders who refused to work until they were paid.
In 1932, a man named Phineas Gage survived having a 3-foot iron rod blasted through his skull, which dramatically changed his personality.
The ancient city of Petra in Jordan was carved directly into rose-red cliff faces and was lost to the Western world for nearly 500 years.
The shortest presidency in United States history was William Henry Harrison's — he died 31 days after taking office.
During the Victorian era, people took photographs with recently deceased family members as a way to preserve their memory.
The Voynich Manuscript, dating from the early 15th century, is written in an unknown script that has never been deciphered.
The original Olympic Games in ancient Greece included a truce that halted all wars so athletes could travel safely.
Metallic hydrogen, theorized to exist at extremely high pressures, could be a room-temperature superconductor.
The half-life of bismuth-209 is approximately 1.9 times 10 to the power of 19 years — far longer than the current age of the universe.
Absolute zero, minus 459.67 degrees Fahrenheit, is theoretically the lowest temperature possible.
Fire is not a solid, liquid, or gas — it is a chemical reaction that produces plasma, light, and heat.
Wind is caused by differences in atmospheric pressure — air flows from high-pressure areas to low-pressure areas.
The discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Rontgen in 1895 revolutionized medicine and earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics.
Supercooled water can remain liquid at temperatures as low as minus 55 degrees Fahrenheit under specific conditions.
A day on Earth is not exactly 24 hours — it is 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4.1 seconds, known as a sidereal day.
Osmium is the densest naturally occurring element, weighing about 22.6 grams per cubic centimeter.