India is the birthplace of chess. The original word for “chess” is the Sanskrit chaturanga, meaning “four members of an army”—which were mostly likely elephants, horses, chariots, and foot soldiers.

Mark your calendars! May 29 is officially "Put a Pillow On Your Fridge Day". Before the invention of refrigerators in the 1920s, people in Europe and the USA would put cloth in their larder for

Ecuador exports $2 trillion dollars worth of bananas every year.

In the USA, beaver damage costs around $100 million in property costs every year.

Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts.

Avocados are poisonous to birds.

Approximately 115 tons of ocean salt spray enters the earth's atmosphere each second.

The average home in Manhattan costs $848,700. The Dutch bought the entire island for 1 set of English tools, not $24 of beads.

A full head of human hair is strong enough to hold 12 tons.

23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.

Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.

To produce a single pound of honey, a single bee would have to visit 2 million flowers.

There are more than a million ants per person on Earth.

German police dogs receive a monthly pension after their retirement.

Hello! I've decided to write a weekly technology review, and to start it off, I'll be reviewing an app called "Smore's". The Smore's app is an app that will pay you 10¢ per day, every day you

A cat's tail contains nearly 10% of all the bones in it's body.

There was a third Apple founder. Ronald Wayne sold his 10% stake for $800 in 1976.

I'll be back to my daily posts. My blog is now twice the size when I left, with over 40 followers. Sorry for the break. It might sound weird to be happy to have only 40 followers, but it's a lot for me.

Apple now has more cash in the bank than the U.S. Treasury has left to spend. The totals sit at $73.768 billion for the Treasury and $75.876 billion for Apple.

The average person spends 6 months of their lifetime waiting on a red light to turn green. By the way, thanks to all my followers! This is my 20th post!