1) In Armenia, children ages 6 and up are taught chess in school as part of the mandatory curriculum. – Source
2) The entire state of Ohio in 1895, there were only two cars on the road, and the drivers of these two cars crashed into each other. – Source
3) Breast milk contains substances closely related to marijuana. – Source
4) L. Ron Hubbard awarded himself his own Ph.D as he himself owned the ‘university’ from which he ‘graduated’. – Source
5) The type of voices heard by people who suffer from schizophrenia depends on where they live. Clinical studies show that people who have auditory hallucinations in Africa and India describe them as positive requests from family members or spirits, but most Americans say they hear violent, torturous, and hateful yelling from strangers. – Source
6) After losing an election, an Oklahoma politician tried to challenge the results by claiming his opponent had died three years ago and was replaced by a body double. – Source
7) At age 18, following her first successful album, singer Shakira started a charity foundation that to date has built six schools in Colombia. – Source
8) kids who try to act cool in their early teens are more likely to have alcohol and relationship problems later in life. – Source
9) lemon juice makes fish taste and smell less ‘fishy’ because its acid neutralizes a chemical group in the fish called amines, making them non-volatile and stopping the smell. – Source
10) If chickens don’t have enough calcium in their diet to make eggs, they dissolve their own bones to get the nutrients they need. – Source
