Fingernails grow faster on your dominant hand. The middle fingernail grows the fastest.

Before the 20th century, no human had lived through a doubling of the human population, but there are people alive today who have seen it triple.

According to a Princeton University study, setting information in hard-to-read fonts, including italic Comic Sans, led to better retention among research subjects because of “disfluency.”

Before buttons, the world got dressed with pins. The U-shaped pin evolved around 1000BC, and eventually pinmakers started to cover the sharp end with wire. During the late Middle Ages, the British decided pins should only be sold on certain days of the year.

Ashton Kutcher once swept the floor of the General Mills factory.

This article appears in 2010.

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