When the Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre in Paris in 1911, one of the people arrested on suspicion of its theft was Pablo Picasso. He’d been implicated by his friend, the poet Guillaume Apollinaire; both men were questioned, and eventually released.

Ketchup was originally made from mushrooms and not tomatoes.

Coal ash is more radioactive than nuclear waste. (That one's for you Dad)

98% of all murders and rapes are by a close family member or friend of the victim.

On average, women utter 7,000 words a day; men manage just over 2,000.

Tigers have striped skin under their hair, but zebras don’t.

Throughout its lifetime, an elephant goes through six sets of teeth. The elephant starves to death once the sixth set of teeth falls out.

Disney World in Orlando, Florida, covers 30,500 acres (46 square miles). That’s twice the size of Manhattan.

In 1897, Bayer, who is the maker of Aspirin, marketed the drug heroin.

Time magazine named the computer its “Man of the Year” in 1982.

The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp (marijuana) paper.

Time magazine’s ‘Man of the Year’ for 1938 was Adolph Hitler.

On average, 1 out of every 8 babies are given to the wrong parents at the hospital. (um... is this-- like happening in America?)

Update.
Okay.... so. I googled it. It really happens!
Check it!