Our view of the world comes from our perception, and the following interesting trivia may overturn your worldview.

Italian physician Thénarzius fabricated a disease called "Kwas syndrome" to save Jews who fled to hospitals seeking Nazi protection. Thénarzius believed it to be a deadly and highly contagious disease, so patients were isolated.

Greenland sharks can live up to 500 years, and lobsters can live forever.

The horse was trapped in the mud. Its owner, Nicole Graham, held its head up for three hours to prevent it from suffocating until rescuers arrived.

The inventor of the Pap smear took daily cervical samples from his wife for 21 years to aid his research. They saved millions of women's lives by detecting the early development of cervical cancer.

There are more artifacts in the ocean than in all museums combined.

New Zealand author Janet was wrongly diagnosed with schizophrenia and scheduled to undergo a lobotomy. Days before the surgery, she won New Zealand's most prestigious literary award, which convinced doctors to cancel the operation.

Hawaii's white sand beaches are made up of parrotfish droppings.

In 2014, a three-year-old girl survived for 11 days in the Siberian forests, where bears and wolves roamed, with only her dog for company. She ate wild berries, drank river water, and huddled next to her dog for warmth. She was rescued when her dog returned to her village and guided rescuers to her.

The Python programming language is named after the British six-person comedy troupe Monty Python, not a snake.

The world's highest mountain, located in the Pacific Ocean, is called Mauna Kea, with a total length of 10,211 meters from its base to its summit.

Drooling before vomiting is a way for the body to protect teeth from stomach acid.

In 1955, Playboy magazine published a story depicting a future where homosexuality was the norm, heterosexuality was banned, and anti-heterosexuals took to the streets. Angered letters flooded in. Luke Ford replied, "If it's wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a gay society, then it's wrong the other way around."

In 14th-century Paris, the streets were so littered with excrement that many streets were named after the French word "merde": rue Merdeux, rue Merdelet, rue Merdusson, rue des Merdons, and rue Merdons. There was also a rue de Pipi, meaning "urine street."

The majority of organisms in the deep-sea plains are sea cucumbers.

Mozart disliked a performer named Adriana Ferrares del Beni. Therefore, upon learning that she bowed her head when playing low notes and raised it when playing high notes, Mozart wrote a song that leaped from low to high to make her head "wiggle like a chicken."

For over 2000 years, the Parthenon in Athens remained largely intact. The severely damaged ruins we see today are not due to natural forces or the passage of time, but rather the result of a massive explosion in 1687.

Dogs and cats have special taste buds specifically for water.

According to a 2009 Sports Illustrated article, 60% of former NBA players went bankrupt within five years of retirement, and 78% of former NFL players were bankrupt or facing financial difficulties two years after retirement.

In homage to Colonel Sanders' "famous" secret combination of 11 herbs and spices, KFC's Twitter account only followed five women and six men named Vanilla. When a Twitter user noticed and pointed this out, KFC sent him a drawing of himself riding on a photo of the Colonel with a chicken leg on his back.

In 2006, a mother and son were convicted of extorting money from Cracker Barrel by claiming they found a dead rat in their soup. An autopsy revealed the rat's lungs contained no soup and it was undercooked, suggesting it had been thrown into the soup after death.

Humans have the best daytime vision of all mammals, but our night vision is relatively poor.

Three drunken boys decided to set sail in search of the girl they had seen at a sporting event. They sailed for over seven weeks, drifting 1300 kilometers before being rescued by a tuna ship. They survived on beer, coconuts, and a bird.

Only 5% of homes in the UK have air conditioning, and many buildings are designed to retain heat.

In 1988, the FBI's National Center for Violent Crime Analysis (NCAVC) conducted a timely psychological analysis of Jack the Ripper to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Whitechapel murders. The FBI described Jack as male, 28-36 years old, and likely a butcher, funeral director, or medical attendant.

Male goats urinate on their heads so that the smell is more attractive to female goats.

Marianne and her brother discovered the first ichthyosaur fossil when she was 12 years old. She went on to discover more fossils and revolutionized paleontology. However, because she was a woman in the early 19th century, her discoveries rarely received full recognition.

Joseph Reddy was the first person to use a microscope to solve a crime. In 1846, a farmer claimed that the blood on his clothes was chicken blood. Joseph Reddy used a microscope to prove that it was not chicken blood.

The "alarm chemical" (isopropyl acetate) released by bees to attack their hives tastes the same as the banana-flavored candy we use to make, meaning the bees will be hostile towards these candies.

Bermuda has no natural water sources. Each house uses a white stepped roof to collect rainwater.

In 500 BC, Sissandra was a judge in the Persian Empire who accepted bribes and rendered unfair judgments in court. He was later skinned alive, and his skin was used to make a chair for his son, who was appointed the next judge. A later painting depicts the scene of his being skinned alive.