Tic Tac mints are named after the sound their container makes.
The designer of the current United States flag was 17 at the time, and created it for a high school project. He received a B-.
The glass winged butterfly lacks colored scales, which makes its wings transparent and helps it avoid predators.
A Nepalese doctor has restored the sight of over 100,000 often poverty-stricken people in the last thirty years across Asia and Africa using a 5 minute procedure and an inexpensive artificial lens.