Epic facts

1. Laos is the most heavily bombed nation in history, with the US secretly dropping an average of 8 bombs a minute for 9 years during the Vietnam war.

1. The R-rated film Planes, Trains and Automobiles would have been rated PG if not for the scene where Steve Martin says "fu*king" 18 times in one minute. Despite the rating, it is the only time in the movie where the word is used.

1. In Germany, you are not allowed to skip your break if you are working more than 6 hours a day.

1. There are thought to be 100,000 uncharted mountains under the sea.

1. Because nobody had thought to put a diaper inside Alan Shepard's spacesuit during his Freedom 7 mission, he was forced to relieve himself directly into his suit after being in it for more than 8 hours, shorting his medical electrodes.

1. OK Go wanted to distribute their album in the form of DNA and became the first band whose album was blocked by the FDA.

1. "Earth Simulator" is one of the most powerful supercomputers on the planet with nearly 35 trillion operations per second and it's used to model Earth's Climate.

1. Teddy Roosevelt regularly staged boxing matches in the White House, taking on anyone he could - including professional boxers. He only stopped boxing when his eyesight was permanently damaged by a punch from his military aide, Colonel Daniel T. Moore.