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Some interesting facts

• The color now known as "School bus yellow" was especially formulated for use on school buses in North America because this yellow is noticed quicker in peripheral vision than any other color.
• Pure honey is the only food that will not rot. Jars have been found dating back over 3000 years that were still perfectly edible.
• A secret nuclear fallout shelter was built under The Greenbrier hotel in West Virginia to house congress in the event of a nuclear war, the vault doors were hidden around the hotel behind fake walls.
• Pumice can form free-floating rafts so large that they can be mistaken for islands and that animals can migrate between landmasses on them.
• The noises made from the Sarlacc Pit in Return Of The Jedi were made from alligator hisses and upset stomachs of the film crew. 
• If you give a spider different types of drugs, each drug will effect the way the web looks differently. 
• Thanks to an Act of Congress, non-alcoholic beer in the United States can actually contain up to 0.5% alcohol.
• We're the only planet to experience total solar eclipses. And it's entirely coincidental, because the sun just happens to be 400 times larger than the moon while also being 400 times farther away. 
• Making them appear the same size in the sky.During the 1980 Boston Marathon, a woman named Rosie Ruiz was declared the winner with a time of 2:31:56. But soon, it was later discovered that she took the subway rather than finish the entire course.
• Tyrannosaurus Rex is believed to have had a life span of around 28 years.
• Alaskan salmon fisherman feared Bald Eagles were a threat to the salmon population. As a result more than 100,000 bald eagles were killed in Alaska from 1917 to 1953.
• A Billionaire hedge fund founder payed 800 New York teachers an extra $15,000 due to poor teacher salaries.
• The largest known black hole, S5 0014+81, has a diameter of 236.7 billion kilometres, or 47 times the distance from the Sun to Pluto. 
• George Washington's net worth at the time of his presidency (1789-1797) is estimated to have been equivalent to $1 billion today.
• During the Great Fire of New York firefighters were unable to access water because of cold temperatures, so the Marines used gunpowder to blow up buildings in the path of the fire to halt its spread.