A googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros — the search engine Google is named after it, misspelled.

Serial killers are statistically rarer than pop culture suggests — the FBI reports fewer than 50 active at any time in the US.

More people die from selfies than from shark attacks in some years.

The longest winning streak in professional sports can span years.

You are more likely to be killed by a vending machine than by a shark.

Both men shared the same name and birthday.

The tea bag was invented by accident when Thomas Sullivan sent tea samples in small silk bags and customers brewed tea with them still in the bags.

People who invest early accumulate significantly more wealth.

The world record for memorizing a deck of cards is 12.74 seconds, set by Zou Lujian in 2017.