In French, a ‘brassière' is a baby's long-sleeve vest. The French for bra is soutien-gorge (literally 'throat-support').
Slugs and snails have tongues covered in thousands of tiny, constantly regrowing teeth. (Image Debivort, CC BY-SA 3.0
In 1849, enslaved American Henry Brown boxed himself up and mailed himself to a state where slavery was illegal. He left the box a free man.
Steller’s sea ape (Simia marina) was named by German zoologist Georg Steller who described seeing a strange beast resembling a cross between a monkey and a shark off the coast of Alaska in 1741 (it was probably a northern fur seal).
The UK and US versions of Dennis the Menace were developed completely separately and both appeared in print for the first time on March 12, 1951. (US photo credit: Jonathan Norris)
He-gassen, or “Fart Battle” art was a popular form of political commentary during the Japanese Edo period.
The umbrella-mouth gulper eel can unhinge its jaw to swallow animals larger than itself.
In medieval Christianity, 14 January was the medieval Feast of the Ass.
It celebrated all the donkeys in the Bible and their contributions to Christianity.
