
Housing a prisoner in California costs $75,560. That’s more than a year at Harvard.

In 2009, a study showed that 40% of Americans believed human and dinosaurs lived at the same time.

A church in Italy, destroyed by an earthquake in 1976, was rebuilt using most of its original cataloged stones that were placed in the exact same positions they were in before it fell.

Since 1953, the regional bank Credito Emiliano has accepted curious collateral for small-business loans: giant wheels of Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese.

According to a 2015 Pew Poll, 59% of Americans believed on-line dating was a good way to meet new people.