Random interesting facts

[JHG]

Princess Mononoke was supposed to be named The Legend of Ashitaka.

[Eremurus]

• If you’re over 100 years old, there’s an 80% chance you’re a woman.
  
• World’s heaviest primates: morbidly obese humans. After that: gorillas at 485 lbs.
  
• Farmers in England are required by law to provide their pigs with toys.
  
• Ninety-nine percent of pumpkins sold in the United States are for the sole purpose of decoration.
  
• Fact: Einstein's last words were in German, but the nurse taking care of him didn't understand what he said. :[
  

[Deleted User 8]

Apparently, wasps cannibalise each other.

First fact from me here, more will come shortly.

[JHG]

• Computers were installed at the Studio Ghibli HQ to get Princess Mononoke released on time.
  
• Yoshifumi Kondō directed only one movie and it was awesome: Whisper of the Heart.
  
• Tanuki is another name for raccoon dog.
  

[Eremurus]

• There are 152 ridges on a standard American quarter.
  
• A picture of Superman appears in every episode of Seinfeld, usually a magnet on his fridge.
  
• Komodo dragons kill their prey by biting it. Their mouths are so filthy and full of bacteria that what they bite runs off and dies from infection. 
  
• Cats are more likely to be able to survive a fall from 100 ft compared to, say, 20 ft. This is because cats don't have a fatal terminal velocity, so more time in the air allows them to have more time to right themselves and brace for their fall.
  
• Hummingbirds can fly backwards. No other bird can do this.
  

[Deleted User 8]

There are 9000 species of grass. Source? An episode of Medical Detectives.

[Eremurus]

Japan is the oldest existing country.

[Catlady45]

Ketchup was sold in the 1830s as medicine.

[Eremurus]

India has 17 official languages. 17!

[JHG]

No English dub of Castle in the Sky includes references to Gulliver's Travels.