Caffeine doesn’t create energy, it just delays fatigue.

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Doing things that scare you will make you happier.

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Orgasms can lower a woman's risk of heart disease, stroke, breast cancer, and depression.

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Nowadays the average high school kid today has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950's.

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A fantastically rare photo of a weasel flying on top of a woodpecker.

The woodpecker seems to be in shock. The photo was taken by British amateur photographer Martin Le-May in a park in east London.

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In France, it's illegal to publish photographs of handcuffed suspects until they've been convicted.

Doing so before a conviction is a threat to personal dignity; as they would appear to be guilty anyway.

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Sea otters will hold hands while they're sleeping, so they don't drift apart.

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Alligators rarely suffer from infections because they have robust immune systems

Their blood is effective against 23 strains of bacteria, and can even destroy a significant amount of HIV.

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Reindeers are so well-adapted to the Arctic winter, they are more likely to overheat than freeze in the cold.

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In Germany, trees are numbered.

This is done in order to keep a list of the trees in the forest. The list contains all the information about the tree: age, condition, species. This is necessary to take proper care of the trees and to prevent them from falling down.

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If you suffer from micturition syncope, you faint while urinating or immediately after urinating.

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The first traffic light was installed on December 10, 1868, in London near the British Parliament building.

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By the end of life, a person remembers an average of 150 trillion bits of information.

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In Africa, water lilies can be so large that they can support the weight of children and even adults.

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The decomposition of a body to a skeleton in ordinary soil can take about a year, while the decomposition of the skeleton itself can take from eight to twelve years.

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In ancient Greece and Rome doctors used spider webs as bandages for their patients.

Spider webs have natural antiseptic and anti-fungal properties, which can help keep wounds clean and prevent infection. It's also said that spider webs are rich in vitamin K, which helps promote clotting

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This is how baby elephants drink water. They don't know how to use their trunks to drink until they are 9 months.

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Tom and Jerry were originally called Jasper and Jinks.

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The lunch catch scene in 'Spider-Man' wasn't CGI. Toby Maguire actually caught all the items. It took him 156 tries to do it correctly.

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