Although they start on opposite sides, a flounder’s eyes migrate over time, to both wind up on one side of its face.

The original Confederate flag featured 13 stars in a circle in the upper left corner on a blue background, with three big horizontal stripes of red, white, and red.

After the battle of Waterloo, scavengers took teeth from the 50,000 dead to make dentures.

Quoting a study in the journal Bioscience, Christopher Ingraham of The Washington Post recently noted that growing an acre of marijuana consumes more water than growing an acre of wine grapes, and about as much water as an acre of (notoriously thirsty) almonds.

President Barack Obama has a comic book collection featuring Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian.

This article appears in July 10 • 2015.

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