The adult human head is composed of 8 cranial bones and 14 facial bones.

*whoosh*

All octopuses are colourblind, even the ones that can change colour.
The eyes of vertebrates have a blind spot where the optic nerve connects to the retina. Cephalopods do not have this blind spot.
The Japanese flying squid can "fly" by launching itself out of the water and gliding. They can glide for up to 30m. I think that makes them the only jet-propelled animals in earth's skies.

Remote Controls lose signal range before their batteries die.

On that note, we all live in the past because our brains process sound and smell a lot faster than they can process visual information. I... can't recall the numbers attached.
Similar note: the nautilus (the actual "living fossil" animal in our oceans) has no lens; their eyes are actually pinholes that are open to the water.

When cats expose their bellies to you, it's a sign of trust.

Also, honey badgers are bad ass.

My Pokemon game on here is TOTALLY still a thing.

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.

The North Korean army uses sea mines from the Russo-Japanese war.
The Russo-Japanese war ended in 1905. It was an embarrassing defeat for the Russians at a time when Europeans thought they could pretty much couldn't lose a war to Asians.
Most of Russia is in Asia, not Europe. Yes I know you were going to make a fuss about that. Pedants.

In 1807 the Ottomans repelled a British attack with a canon that had been constructed more than three hundred years previously.
In preparation for invading Japan, the US army had half a million purple hearts made. The medals have been given out to wounded soldiers in every war since then and they still haven't run out.
JFK made overtures to the USSR to end the space race and combine the space programs of both nations. There is some evidence that Khrushchev was planning to accept the proposal before JFK was assassinated.

Over 10 million of the profiles on Facebook belong to people who are now dead.
Only three people have ever died in outer space; the cosmonauts aboard Soyuz 11.
NASA employs a woman with the job title "Planetary Protection Officer". Jealousy is mandatory.

Shortly after World War II, the Soviet Union blockaded the rail lines into Allied-controlled areas of Berlin. In response, the US and Britain began airlifting massive amounts of food, coal, and gasoline; over eleven months, they brought in over 2 million tons of supplies, eventually transporting more than the rails ever did.

During this operation, they flew about 92 million miles (about the distance between the Earth and the Sun) and invested over $2 billion (adjusted for inflation); it was a major factor in reconciling Germany with its former Allied enemies.

Wrong war, but still, Happy Armistice Day!

The Kraas Literacy Agency, established in 1990, represents 35 authors.

At their peak, the samurai class compromised about 10% of Japan's population.
Women in ancient Japan could become samurai warriors. Nobody knows what proportion of samurai were women though.
There have been exactly four Western samurai.

Camels imported to the United States of America in the 1800s established local populations that didn't die off until the 1940s.
In much of the "wild" west it was illegal to carry firearms in public.

The band Van Halen's standard performance contract required that they be supplied with a bowl of M&Ms backstage with all brown M&Ms removed. According to the band, this was done to test whether people actually read the contract.

The McDonald's brand is valued at $95 billion.
The second most valuable fast food brand is Starbucks at a comparitively small $17 billion.
Only 45% of a McDonald's chicken nugget is chicken.

The fax machine was invented in 1843 by Alexander Bain.
In Swaziland it is illegal for a witch to ride a broomstick at an altitude above 150 meters.
Starbucks Coffee is named after captain Ahab's first mate in Moby Dick. And also coffee.
Coffee beans are actually the pits of berries. Coffee berries are the one fruit we throw out and drink the pit of. Got to wonder what they do with all the berries.
Cashews are not nuts. They come from a fruit. The fruit is not edible, but you can drink the juice of it.
Canada has one Tim Hortons' for every 15000 people.

The film Russian Ark, clocking in at 93 minutes, was shot in one single continuous take.
When King George IV died, The Times wrote "there never was an individual less regretted by his fellow-creatures than this deceased king...If he ever had a friend – a devoted friend in any rank of life – we protest that the name of him or her never reached us." He was not a popular king.
The South Pole has been visited by tractor. More than once in fact.

Taurine makes up as much as 0.1% of your body weight. It is also very common in energy drinks.
Killer whales and humanshave come together before for the purposes of hunting other whales. The whales would alert the human whalers to the presence of baleen whales which the humans would slaughter. In accordance with "the law of the tongue", the whales were allowed to eat the lips and tongue before the humans took their kill.
February 19th, 1942 was If Day. The city of Winnipeg staged a mock Nazi invasion to help sell war bonds. "Festivities" included a mock battle, an air raid and blackout and a Nazi parade through town. The local radio station was "commandeered", the city was put under curfew and city officials were marched off to an "internment camp". The Winnipeg Tribune ran under the title Das Winipeger Lugenblatt for the day.

Hydras are a real animal, or at least there's an animal called a hydra. The hydra are aquatic animals that inject prey with neurotoxins and can swallow creatures twice their size. The hydra's stem cell supply constantly replenishes and they never grow old. They can grow to be a whole centimetre long and travel several inches in a day.
There is a position in the British government titled the "Crown Steward and Bailiff of the three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham". The post exists for no other reason than to get rid of Members of Parliment, who do not have the authority to resign. Truly a shining achievement of English bureaucracy.

Sonic The Hedgehog isn't only the name of Sega's speedy mascot, but also a gene on chromosome 7 of the human genome. Well, it was until recently when the science community decided to ditch all of its 'comedy' names for genes. Party poopers.

GoldenEye's famously brilliant multiplayer mode originally contained three Bond actors as playable characters; Sean Connery, Roger Moore and Timothy Dalton. Their data was left on the cartridge, but you couldn't select them without using a cheat device.

The Texas Instruments TI-83 calculator has more graphics processing power than the Commodore 64. Amazingly, some basic C64 games can even be programmed into it.

~SE++

Many states do not regulate flamethrowers.

The party game Mafia was created in 1986 at Moscow State University.
According to North Korean defectors, Kim Jong Il has his chefs inspect every grain of rice before it is cooked for him.
According to wikipedia "An illegal number is a number that represents information which is illegal to store, utter, propagate, or otherwise transmit in some legal jurisdiction."