You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

[Lee Stewart]

You only have two body parts that never stop growing. Human noses and ears keep getting bigger, even when the rest of the body’s growth has come to a halt.

[Lee Stewart]

You can thank the Greeks for calling Christmas 'Xmas.' In Greek, the word for 'Christ' starts with the letter Chi, which looks like an X in the Roman alphabet.

[Lee Stewart]

A cattle rancher in New Jersey is credited for inventing glitter, and it was by accident. Henry Ruschmann from Bernardsville, New Jersey was a machinist who crushed plastic while trying to find a way to dispose of it and thus made glitter in 1934.

[Lee Stewart]

Victor Frankenstein’s Creature is actually vegetarian. Frankenstein and Creature are fictional characters created by Mary Shelley in her novel, Frankenstein. In the novel, Creature says, 'My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment.'

[Lee Stewart]

James Cameron is the award-winning director of movies like Titanic, Avatar, and The Terminator. In order to get his big break with The Terminator, he sold the script for $1 and a promise that he’d be able to direct.

[Lee Stewart]

To the everyday eye under normal conditions, ripe bananas appear yellow due to organic pigments called carotenoids. When bananas ripen, chlorophyll begins to break down. This pigment is the element that makes bananas glow, or 'fluoresce,' under UV lights and appear blue.

[Lee Stewart]

Silly Putty, the weird bouncy rubbery thing that became a bestselling toy in the second half of the 20th century, has some weird physical properties. It's a non-Newtonian fluid, which means it sometimes acts like a liquid and sometimes like a solid.

Some YouTube experimenters showed exactly what that means, dropping 50 pounds of Silly Putty from the top of a parking garage. Instead of bouncing back up, it shatters like glass and makes a crashing noise.

[Lee Stewart]

One 18-inch pizza is more pizza than two 12-inch pizzas.

[Lee Stewart]

The US Air Force lost a nuclear bomb somewhere off the coast of Georgia.

No one knows where it is! An Air Force pilot dropped the bomb into the water outside of Savannah, Georgia, after colliding with another plane in 1958 during a training mission.

The US Navy searched for the bomb for months, but never found it.

[Lee Stewart]

Cashews grow on the bottom of a fruit called a cashew apple. The nuts are removed individually and the fruit is often sold in juiced form.