Robert Behnke, a Wisconsin dairy farmer, owns the queen cow of milk production. His cow, Gigi, has produced more milk in one year than any other cow, at 8,700 gallons. That’s three times the national average for a dairy cow to produce in a year.

According to Guinness World Records, the first human cannonball was a woman named Rosa Zazel Richter in 1877. She was shot at a distance of about 20 feet at Westminster Aquarium in London.

Ruth Lawrence is a child prodigy who passed the Oxford University Entrance Exam when she was only 10, she was first out of 530 candidates. She graduated after only 2 years in the bachelor’s degree program and she earned a doctorate degree by the time she was 17 years old.

In the Miombo Woodland area of Central Africa, scientists discovered an abandoned termite mound that is more than 2,200 years old.

A service dog named Opal not only leads her blind owner around, she’s also became a guide dog to the family’s previous guide dog, Edward. The previous dog had taken care of the owner for six years until he had his eyes removed after developing cataracts. 

Elephant Island, located off the coast of Antarctica, has elephant moss growing on it that is over 5500 years old.

New research published in the Journal of Meteoritics and Planetary Science confirmed that the blade on the dagger found in Tutankhamun’s  tomb is made with materials from a meteorite. Scientists performed X-ray fluorescence spectrometry on it, which is a method used to learn more about elements of an object and their composition.  It was found to contain iron, nickel, and cobalt; all materials found in chunks of space rocks.

Forty-two-year-old Russian fisherman Igor Vorozhbitsyn was brutally attacked by a bear, but he was suddenly saved when his ringtone, that his granddaughter installed on his phone, Justin Bieber’s “Baby,” went off—sending the bear running back into the woods.

The tallest outdoor elevator in the world is the Bailong Elevator, also known as the  Hundred Dragons Elevator. It carries tourists 1,083 feet up the side of a massive sandstone column in a mountain range in China’s Hunan Province. It’s so large that it can carry 50 people at a time.