Events at the chaotic 1900 Paris Olympic Games included kite flying, firefighting and competitive lifesaving.

In seawater, it can take up to 1,300 years for a single Lego brick to completely break down. (Study: .)

While gossip among women is universally ridiculed as low and trivial, gossip among men, especially if it is about women, is called theory, or idea, or fact. ANDREA DWORKIN

When filming Titanic, only one half of the ship was built, and the appearance of an entire liner was achieved through left-right reversing the shots. Because of that, an unusually large number of extras seem to be left-handed.

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent. MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN

Speakers of the indigenous Australian language Dyirbal switch to a completely different dialect in the presence of their mother-in-law.

Word of the Day: SLANTINGDICULAR - something awry or amiss.

One of the techniques used for testing new toilet bowls is to flush progressively larger cylinders of soybean paste through them until they can no longer be flushed away.

The original concept of the board game Operation was to avoid dying of thirst in the desert.