Sarah Foote

The Easter Island heads have bodies. In the 2010s, archaeologists found that two of the Pacific Island figures actually had torsos that measured as high as 33 feet.

There’s only one letter that doesn’t appear in any American state name. There's a Z in Arizona, and an X in Texas, but no Q in any of them.

A book called "A La Recherche du Temps Perdu" by Marcel Proust contains an estimated 9,609,000 characters, making it the longest book in the world. The title translates to "Remembrance of Things Past."

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The Japanese word 'Kuchi zamishi' is the act of eating when you're not hungry because your mouth is lonely.

A chef's hat has 100 pleats. Apparently, it's meant to represent the 100 ways you can cook an egg. Wonder if Gordon Ramsay knows that.

Competitive art used to be an Olympic sport. Between 1912 and 1948, the international sporting event awarded medals for music, painting, sculpture, and architecture.

Nutmeg is a hallucinogen. The spice contains myristicin, a natural compound that has mind-altering effects if ingested in large doses.

Australia is wider than the moon. The moon is 3400 km in diameter, while Australia’s diameter from east to west is almost 4000 km.

A silverback gorilla can lift over 1,763 pounds.

It takes roughly 540 peanuts to make a jar of peanut butter.

The first successful electric car in the U.S. was made by chemist William Morrison in 1890.

The first New Year's was celebrated in space by the International Space Station crew in 2000.

The custom of making resolutions dates back over 4,000 years to the Babylonians, who made promises to their gods.

In Denmark, smashing dishes against friends' doors signifies loyal friends and good luck.

In Greece, hanging an onion symbolizes rebirth, with parents tapping kids with it on New Year's Day.

Eating 12 grapes at midnight (one for each chime) brings luck for each month in Spain and other regions.

90 % of the world’s population lives in the Northern Hemisphere.