In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park in New York despite being dead — he suffered a heart attack mid-race but his body stayed in the saddle until his horse crossed the line for a 20–1 outsider victory.
The woolly mammoth survived until Egyptian times.
In one month, the average person consumes about a Lego brick’s worth of microplastic.
“Digging a hole to China” is theoretically possible if you start in Argentina.