Viking’s accidentally made a rudimentary form of steel when they tried to fuse the spirit of an animal or ancestor into a weapon. They would crush bones and fuse it into iron when forging weapons. – fact51

The otherwise adorable duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus) has a venomous spur on its hind legs. The spur is only on the males and is non-lethal to humans but can be extremely painful. – fact51

Joseph “Moondyne Joe” Johns escaped prison so often that a special prison was built for him. The jailer was so confident in the new jail he promised to set Joe free if he ever escaped. Joe escaped and was caught 2 years later, but the jailer kept his word and freed him. – fact51

Sgriob is a Gaelic word meaning “an itching of the lip, superstitiously supposed to precede a feast, a drink of whiskey, or a kiss from a favorite.” – fact51

The tomato frog’s defense mechanism is to secrete a glue that ultimately causes their predators lips to stick together.

A 2009 study found that the closer a woman lives to the equator, the more likely she is to give birth to a female.

A family taking a walk on a beach in Wales found a message in a bottle thrown into the ocean by a German couple 1,624 miles away and nearly four years earlier. – fact51

In 1922, Ernest Hemingway’s wife Elizabeth lost all but two of his early manuscripts while traveling by train from Paris to Switzerland to meet Hemingway. They’ve never been found. – fact51

Caffeine extracted from coffee beans to make decaf coffee is sold as crude caffeine to refiners and the pure caffeine is ultimately sold to soft drink makers like Coca Cola and Pepsi. – fact51