
In Italy, “pepperoni”refers to bell peppers. There’s no Italian salami by that name.

In 2009, a doctor in India removed 172,155 stones from a patient’s left kidney during a three-hour surgery.

The world’s deadliest recorded earthquake occurred in 1556 in China, killing an estimated 830,000 people.

An unborn baby can taste what its mother is eating and develop a preference for the foods that she eats.

There is an island known as “Just Room Enough Island” that has just enough room for a tree and a house.