The longest walkable distance on Earth is from from Cape Town in South Africa all the way to the port town of Magadan in the far-east of Russia, however no one is known to have completed it.

This incredible journey is measured at a whopping 22,387km (13,910 Miles).

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One-third of Taiwanese funeral processions include a stripper.

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Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on.

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The screaming at many Beatles concerts was so loud that no one could hear them play-not even the Beatles themselves.

It was one reason they stopped touring and retreated to the studio to create albums like Sgt. Pepper with no concern for performing any of the songs live.

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Princeton researchers successfully turned a live cat into a functioning telephone in 1929.

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Harry Patch, the last surviving soldier of World War 1, died aged 111 years, 1 month, 1 week and 1 day.

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The Iroquois have an annual dream-sharing festival in which they act out their dreams.

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Israeli doctors sewed a 12-year-old boy's head into place

The boy was hit by a car and suffered a rare injury — internal decapitation, in which the cervical spine is separated from the skull, but the blood supply to the brain is preserved

According to doctors, 70% of patients die either on the spot, or on the way to the hospital, or on the operating table, but the kid survived and even without consequences.

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The Ancient Egyptians trained baboons to wait on tables.

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Senior citizens in New Zealand can join ‘coffin clubs’, where they meet up once a week to make and decorate their own coffins.

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There's a fungus that bleeds.

The mushroom Hydnellum peckii has a pretty unmistakable appearance, particularly when it's young.

This fungus exudes a thick, dark red sap across a white cap, earning it numerous nicknames, from "strawberries and cream," to "devil's tooth," to "bleeding tooth fungus." Fortunately, neither the fungus nor the sap are poisonous, but they're both said to be inedibly bitter.

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Rat torture was a method used in medieval times. It worked by putting a pot of hungry rats into a cage that was strapped to the victims stomach.

Then the cage was slowly heated, making the distressed rats chew and claw through the victim, trying to escape.

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Ancient Greek athletes had their spleens removed to help them run faster.

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There’s only one Shell gas station shaped like a shell

Eight were built in the 1930s, but the only one left is in North Carolina.

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Why do we eat cake on birthdays?

No one is complaining about this tradition, but haven’t you always wondered why we do it?

The ancient Egyptians are actually credited with “inventing” the celebration of birthdays. They believed that when pharaohs were crowned gods, it represented their “birth” as a god and that the day needed to be celebrated.

The ancient Greeks borrowed the tradition and decided it would be even better with the addition of a sweet treat. They made moon-shaped pies to honor Artemis, goddess of the moon, and added lit candles to make the cakes shine like the moon. That’s where we get birthday candles from. Since the ingredients to make a cake were pretty expensive, the tradition didn’t become popular until around the Industrial Revolution, when the ingredients started to become more plentiful.

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