Shit you didn't know

If you drop a penny off the Empire State Building, it's not going to kill anyone unless they happen to choke on it. Pennies aren't very aerodynamic and have a relatively low terminal velocity.

Lightning frequently strikes the same place twice (or more).

Burrito in Spanish literally means "little donkey". No, burritos are not made from small donkeys. Unfortunately.

Irving Berlin, the guy who wrote the song "God Bless America", did not believe in God. (Maybe the 'B' was a typo?)

Suicide is more common than homicide in the United States. I'm dead serious.

There are appreciable levels of (radioactive) strontium-90 in your bones, because of nuclear weapons testing that was done in the 1950s and 60s.

Every time you drink a glass of water, it is highly probable that you are imbibing at least one molecule that has passed through the bladder of Oliver Cromwell. This logically follows from the fact that there are far more molecules in a glass of water than there are glasses of water on the earth.

That last one was stolen pretty much verbatim from a Dawkins book.

I can't remember which one.