Vincent Van Gogh might be known as the artist extraordinaire now, but in his time, he didn’t enjoy commercial success. In fact, he only officially sold one painting, "The Red Vineyard."

Guess he was really focused on his art more than anything then.

Apparently, "Fido" means "faithful" in Latin.

It’s one of two things: you could name your dog Fido and boast that you know Latin, or… Your other dogs run away out of insecurity.

In Delft University, Netherlands, members of Gezelschap Leeghwater, the mechanical engineering students’ association created the longest true bicycle - which was 28.1 m (92 ft 2 in). The bicycle was ridden for a distance in excess of 100 m on December 11, 2002.

I don’t even know how to ride a bike *shamefaced*, let alone get on one that’s practically a hundred feet long.

After the “Popeye” comic strip was launched in 1931, spinach consumption went up by thirty-three percent in the United States.

I can believe that, because I’m a victim of this too, and I wasn’t even born until more than half a century after.@_@

Apparently, research on pigs led to the development of the CAT scan.

Shouldn’t it have been called PIG Scan then? They could come up with a cool acronym too, like Photography of Internal Goodies, or Pictures of Inside Gems? I don’t really know.@_@