Odyssey Of Curiosities

If you love mind-blowing facts, weird history, and curiosities you didn’t know you needed, we share fascinating facts daily, so stick around for more surprises. 🚀📚✨

Netflix is responsible for 15% of global internet traffic

Binge-watching comes at a cost—Netflix alone accounts for about 15% of the world’s internet traffic! 🤯

In Seahorse families, Dads do the Birthing

Unlike almost every other species, male seahorses are the ones that carry and deliver babies! 🍼🐠

Monopoly was invented to criticize Capitalism

Monopoly wasn’t meant to celebrate getting rich—it was created in 1903 by Lizzie Magie, a feminist & anti-monopolist, to critique capitalism.

A Crocodile Can’t Stick Its Tongue Out

Unlike most animals, crocodiles have a special membrane that keeps their tongue glued to the bottom of their mouth—so they can’t stick it out! 👅❌

The Kings in a deck of cards represent real historical figures

In the 16th century, French playing card makers started associating each king with a famous historical figure.

Butterflies Taste with their Feet

Their legs have special chemoreceptors that let them detect the chemical composition of plants. That’s how they know where to lay eggs and what to eat!

The University of Oxford Is Older Than the Aztec Empire

Oxford started teaching in 1096, while the Aztec Empire wasn’t founded until 1325—over 200 years later!

The First Person to Win TWO Nobel Prizes Was a Woman

She won Physics for radiation discoveries and Chemistry for isolating radium. Her groundbreaking work paved the way for modern medicine & nuclear science.

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows

Look closely—the Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes!. Some say they faded over time, others believe Leonardo da Vinci never finished them.

Heroin was once sold as cough medicine

In the 1890s, Bayer (the aspirin company) marketed heroin as a cough suppressant—even for children