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Wayne Coyne, of the band the Flaming Lips, is also a designer.

El Taco (Meteorite discovered in 1962), which weighed 1998 kg, is a fragment of an 800-ton iron mass, older than Earth itself, coming from the Asteroid Belt located between Mars and Jupiter.

More people are colorblind of some degree than you probably realize.

Did you know that the products you rub onto your skin are actually absorbed into your bloodstream? Learn more at Honest.com

A handy infographic on the toxics lurking inside conventional all-purpose cleaners! #honestcompany

Did you know that some of Tesla's inventions ranged from: radar, x-ray, wireless communications and... want more? Find out after the jump. Click to find out

Answering questions on how inking works

Fun Facts about Prohibition in 1920s Chicago: A few speakeasies and mob hangouts, like John Barleycorn’s and the Green Mill Cocktail Lounge, are still in business today. It was estimated that Al Capone, Chicago’s most famous gangster, bootlegger and crime boss, raked in $60 million alone on alcohol sales in 1927.

7 out of 9 writers for the show MadMen are women.

Orcas are notable for their complex societies. Only elephants and higher primates, such as humans, live in comparably complex social structures.

If the color (which experts say the lake gives off its pink hue due to cyanobacteria, a harmless halophilic bacteria found in the water) weren’t enough to make you smile, it should be known that Lake Retba has a high salt content, much like that of the Dead Sea, allowing people to float effortlessly in the massive pink water. In fact, Lake Retba has an almost one and a half times higher salt content than the Dead Sea.

Tibetan Buddhist monk, the Ven. K. C. Ayang Rinpoche, blessing the deer in Kyoto's Nara Park, July 26th, 1985. He only asked once for a photo to be taken, and said "Take a photo now". No one saw the rainbow until the image was printed.

Carl Sagan: an astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer. Outside of his book writing, he had that amazing award-winning television series "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage".

Elizabeth Warren: Before it was fashionable, Warren was warning of the dangers that exotic finance products could unleash on middle-class families through her many books and articles. “She is the one who really nailed it,” said MIT economist Simon Johnson, a Daily Beast contributor.

"If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin." -Charles Darwin

Christopher Hitchens: author, journalist, prominent intellectual and literary critic.. was controversial for the sake of honesty.. didn't suffer 'fools' easily. R.I.P.

LEONARDO‑DA‑VINCI, was so advanced for his times, he couldn't have been human.

Ian Curtis's gravestone that bears the words of the song for which he is best remembered: "Love Will Tear Us Apart" was stolen in July of 2008.

Nikola Tesla: one of the world’s greatest inventors but debatably-unjustly, eclipsed by Thomas Edison.

Susan Sontag: a literary icon. Her book, "On Photography" allowed me to look at photography in a new light.. in fact she 'switched the light on'.

Maria Mitchell Astronomer and professor at Vassar College. First female member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Charles Manson (before the infamous murders he would receive fame for) was an insanely brilliant singer-songwriter on the fringe of the Los Angeles music industry, chiefly through a chance association with Dennis Wilson, founding member and drummer of The Beach Boys. After Manson was charged with the crimes he was later convicted of, recordings of songs written and performed by him were released commercially. Various musicians, including Guns N' Roses, White Zombie and Marilyn Manson, have covered some of his songs.

Thomas Edison: Did you know he electrocuted an elephant or that one of his inventions actually killed one of his employees? Read more by clicking the picture.

Poet and recluse Emily Dickinson. Upon her death she instructed someone to burn a major body of her work. However, the leftover 40 notebooks ended up later being published.