The Strange People You'll Only Meet On the Subway

The More You Know

• A single lightning bolt has enough energy to toast 100,000 slices of bread.
• There are around 60,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body. If you took them all out and laid them end to end, they’d stretch around the world more than twice.
• The idea that a man should spend two months salary on an engagement ring was popularized by De Beers' ad agency.
• People don’t sneeze in their sleep due to their brain shutting down the reflex.