Uncommon knowledge
Statistically, you are significantly more likely to be injured or killed by this hard-shelled fruit falling on you than you are by a shark attack.
What is a coconut?
Long before streaming, kids in the 70s and 80s kept their music portable by carrying this iconic Sony cassette player, which featured two headphone jacks so you could share with a friend.
What is a Walkman?
Long before leading the Union through the Civil War, this 16th US President was an elite, trash-talking wrestler who was enshrined in the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
To evade predators, these slow-moving marine invertebrates can literally eject their own sticky, toxic internal respiratory organs out of their backsides to tangle up attackers while they crawl away.
What is a sea cucumber?
Despite its heavily associated name, the historic standard instrument known as the French Horn actually originated in this entirely different European nation.
What is Germany?
This Finnish tech giant ruled the early 2000s mobile world with its indestructible "3310" model, famous for its marathon battery life and the game Snake.
What is Nokia?
Before becoming a founding father and the first US postmaster general, he made a living as a humble apprentice printer, a job he honored by starting his famous Poor Richard's Almanack.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
When this bird's chick is left alone in its nest and feels threatened, it defends itself by projecting a foul-smelling, toxic orange vomit that completely ruins the feathers and waterproofing of any predatory bird.
What is a Eurasian roller bird?
Though we picture them roaming hot, barren deserts, the country with the world's largest population of wild camels is actually this massive, island country.
What is Australia?
This ultra-popular 2000s footwear brand featured a hidden, single wheel embedded in the heel, allowing kids to seamlessly transition from walking to skating across mall floors.
What are Heelys?
Long before becoming the tyrannical Soviet dictator, he financed his early political activities by orchestrating bank heists and working a day job as a meteorologist at a weather observatory.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
Found in the rainforests of Southeast Asia, certain species of these insects can violently contract their abdominal muscles until their own bodies literally rupture, spraying a toxic, sticky yellow goo all over their attackers.
What are exploding ants?
Because it is entirely surrounded by land, this large body of water in Western Asia is legally and scientifically classified as a lake, despite its misleading name.
What is the Caspian Sea?
Long before the iPad, this 1990s handheld personal digital assistant (PDA) featured a stylus and pioneered a special shorthand script called Graffiti for writing notes.
What is the PalmPilot?
Decades before becoming the controversial dictator of Italy, this fascist leader worked as a elementary school teacher before getting fired and fleeing to Switzerland to avoid military service.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
When threatened by a predator, this desert-dwelling reptile can restrict the blood flow out of its head until the pressure builds up enough to squirt a stream of foul-tasting blood directly out of its eyes.
What is the Texas horned lizard?
While we often map them strictly to Egypt, this neighboring African country actually contains the highest total concentration of pyramids in the world.
What is Sudan?
Sporting a pair of lizards on the glass bottle, this early-2000s drink brand was famous for its herbal-infused elixirs like "Lizard Blizzard" and "Green Tea."
What is Sobe?
Long before serving as the 39th US President and winning a Nobel Peace Prize, this leader managed his family's messy, agriculture-dependent commercial peanut farm in Georgia.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
When threatened by large predators, this sluggish, giant deep-sea shark species deters them by releasing a cloud of chemical slime from its skin pores that swells into a thick, suffocating jelly when mixed with ocean water.
What is a hagfish?