Here are a few of my favorite...
*Maine is the closest U.S. state to Africa.
*Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barbara Walters were born in the same year, 1929.
*Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of the iPhone than she did to the building of the Great Pyramid.
*Hippo milk is pink.
*Cookie Monster’s real name is Sid.
*Betty White is actually older than sliced bread.
*John Tyler, the 10th president of the United States, has a grandson who’s alive today.
*There are more stars in space than there are grains of sand on every beach on Earth.
*And there’s enough water in Lake Superior to cover all of North and South America in one foot of water.
*Turtles can breathe out of their butts.
The full list, of course, comes from Buzzfeed. You can read it here if you're interested.