Fact World

Stuck inside on a rainy day in 1816, writers Mary Shelley, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron, and John Polidori challenged each other to a scary story writing contest. Mary came up with the idea for Frankenstein and published it two years later at age 20.

Viking men wore makeup.

In colonial America, lobster wasn’t exactly a delicacy. In fact, it was so cheap and plentiful that it was often served to prisoners.

The space between your eyebrows is a glabella. That’s also the name of the bone underneath that space that connects your brow ridges.

In her will, author Dorothy Parker left her estate to Martin Luther King Jr. and the NAACP following his death. The organization still owns the rights to her work today.