The first drinking straw was designed to have a diameter slightly smaller than the typical lemon pip, as the inventor was tired of getting lemon seeds in his mouth when he drinking lemonade.
Businesses like McDonald's and Starbucks buy chairs with low 'butt ratings' that have a measured time before they become too uncomfortable for patrons to stay.
An Australians veterinarian performed a 45 minute surgery on a goldfish named George. His owners were "quite attached" to him, so they paid to have a tumor removed from his head.
A young boy once pocketed a few giant African land Snails while on vacation in Hawaii. When he returned home to Florida and got bored of it, his grandmother released them in the backyard, starting an invasion of foot long snails in Florida