30 Obscure Now-You-Know Facts About Movies, Animals and More

Everyone knows ground-level facts. For example, the temperature that water freezes at, that Greenland is actually icy and Iceland is actually green, blah blah blah.

So we’re not here to waste your time with basic tidbits everyone already knows. We want to take things up a notch with obscure, next level, now-you-know facts about movies, animals and more. Case in point: It turns out the first woman in space was sent up in a ship that wasn’t programmed to descend. Fortunately, ground control was able to get her back home safely.

Here’s more about that and 29 other interesting facts about art, movies, history and more…