Kangaroos usually give birth to one young annually. The young kangaroo, or joey, is born alive at a very immature stage, when it is only about 2 cm long and weighs less than a gram.

The song has received almost universally negative reviews, with some considering it to be the "worst song ever." Observers have called it "bizarre," "inept," and "hilariously dreadful." The song and singer were "savaged" on social networks across the Internet, while being seen as a "YouTube laughing stock." However, when considered what it is, a...Read more

The first envelopes with gummed flaps were produced in 1844. In Britain, they were not immediately popular because it was thought to be a serious insult to send a person's saliva to someone else.

One airline, Virgin Atlantic Airways, discovered that it takes in an average of 18 cents per passenger per flight in loose change found in the plane's seats. If that figure holds for the approximate 320 million people who fly from one country to another worldwide each year, the total is about $58 million. Lost coins on domestic flights don't ...Read more

The oldest city in Germany, Trier was once the capital of the Western Roman Empire, and residence of the Emperor Constantine. Despite a bloody history, a remarkable amount of Trier's past has been preserved, including an impressive group of Roman monuments north of the Alps.

Eating in public in Japan, while now commonplace, was a shocking breach of Japanese etiquette in former times.

Starch is used as a binder in the production of paper. It is the use of a starch coating that controls ink penetration when printing. Cheaper papers do not use as much starch, and this is why your elbows get black when you are leaning over your morning paper.

One of the deadliest diseases in the world is Japanese River Fever, with a mortality rate of more than 50 percent. It is found only near rivers in certain areas of Japan, China, Korea, Burma, and India.

It would take 27,000 spiders, each spinning a single web, to produce a pound of web.

Scouting's highest award was originally conceived of as the Wolf Scout, as shown in the June 1911 Official Handbook for Boys. The medal illustrated in the handbook was a profile of an eagle in flight, but was changed to the current design before any were issued. In their original conceptions, Life Scout, Star Scout and Eagle Scout were not ranks...Read more

A survey revealed that perpetrators of violent acts on TV dramas go unpunished 73 percent of the time.

He did, but it's probably not the Robin you're thinking of. The editors at DC Comics had slowly had Dick Grayson's (the first Robin) character age over the years and the time came when he left Batman's side to become another hero, Nightwing. The Dark Knight took on a new sidekick, Jason Todd, a young street orphan whom he first encountered while...Read more

Soldiers arrived to fight the Battle of Marne in World War I -- not on foot or by military airplane or military vehicle -- but by taxi cabs. France took over all the taxi cabs in Paris to get soldiers to the front.

Prior to the adoption of the Twelfth Amendment in 1804, the candidate who ran second in a presidential race automatically become vice president. Thomas Jefferson became John Adams' vice president in this way.

The first president to appear on television was Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was seen by U.S. viewers at the opening of the New York World's Fair on April 30, 1939.

The average bra size sold at Frederick's of Hollywood in 1966 was a 34B. Today, it's a 36C.

The General Sherman Tree in Sequoia National Park, California, is the largest tree in the world. It weighs more than 6,000 tons.

In the United States, Navajo culture discourages doctors from discussing end-of-life directives and negative prognoses for fear that talking about grim subjects may trigger them.

The average adult male ostrich, the world's largest living bird, weighs up to 345 pounds.

The Muppet Show was banned from TV in Saudi Arabia because one of its stars was a pig.