When Boris Yeltsin met President Clinton in 1995, his first question was "Do you think O.J. did it?"
Scorpions are incredibly resilient: scientists have frozen scorpions overnight, left them in the sun the following day, and when thawed, the arthropod walked away unscathed.
A team of six women programmed the first digital computer.
Parts of the Great Wall of China were made with sticky rice.