From its dead bodies serving as guideposts to its most remarkable climbers to its enormous feces problem, these Mount Everest facts are even more fascinating than you could imagine. Everest's first surveyors added two extra feet to their height figure. When British surveyors in the 1850s first calculated Everest's height at exactly 29,000 feet, they assumed people would think it was a round estimate and thus added two extra feet to their total.

From the shanty town in Central Park to the crime-plagued slums of Lower Manhattan, these vivid images allow you to inhabit the streets of New York as they were a century ago. A bootblack stands near City Hall Park. July 1924.Lewis Hine/Library of Congress; Ryan Stennes Shanty town dwellings sit in Central Park at the height of the Great Depression. 1933.Bettmann/Getty Images; Ryan Stennes A beggar, perhaps disfigured during World War I, sits on the street.

Go inside seven chilling cases of phrogging, from Pamela Anderson's stalker to the murderous Denver Spider Man.For many people, the idea that a stranger could be living in your home without your knowledge is one of the most terrifying scenarios. Unfortunately, for some individuals, this nightmarish situation has been a reality. They have become the victims of phrogging, or the act of a person secretly living in an occupied space without the residents’ permission.

Love learning about crazy coincidences and bizarre facts? Then read these amazing facts that will tickle your brain!Do you enjoy learning about the weird history, fascinating science, and crazy coincidences that make up our collective human experience? Then you came to the right place with this gallery of seventy-seven bizarre, fascinating, and simply amazing facts: Vending machines kill 4 times as many people as sharks per year. Fredric Baur invented the Pringles can.

Yiwu, China is the closest thing to a real Christmas village as you can get. With 600 factories, they produce about 60 percent of our Christmas decorations.Source: Daily Mail “China’s Christmas Village” is located in Yiwu, a city in the Zhejiang Province. Though there are no elves, snow or reindeer in sight, Yiwu produces around 60% of the world’s Christmas decorations. The UN referred to the real Christmas village as the “largest small commodity wholesale market in the world,” and it’s easy to see why.