The Australian thorny devil, a spiky ant-eating lizard, consumes an average of 2,000 ants per day

Historians have documented 5,000 lynchings of blacks in America from 1882 to 1968. Of those, Mississippi had the most (581), followed by Texas (493) and Georgia (431).

Instead of toilet paper, Nazi war criminal Hermann Goring only used handkerchiefs. He bought them in bulk.

Fiberglass is actually made of tiny strands of glass that can measure from 0.0004 inches to two-millionths of an inch in diameter and from six inches to more than a mile long.

Asparagus in England is often called sperage or sparrow-grass.

Only about 1 of every 700 Swiss army knives is purchased by the Swiss army.

In April 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis to support the city's striking garbage workers. But he was assassinated the night before he was to have led a protest march.

Although Roman emperors burned Christians at the stake or threw them to the lions, Christians after Constantine weren't much kinder. Greeks who continued to worship the gods of the pantheon, for instance, were often sentenced to dismemberment in public.

The Baby Ruth candy bar was named for Ruth Cleveland, the oldest daughter of President Grover Cleveland.