It is customary in Japan to eat every single grain of rice, right down to the very last one. Such was its traditional importance that it was considered an affront to the Shinto to waste even a single grain. Think about that next time your eyes prove too big for you stomach.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle were set up on a blind date. They met at London’s Soho House, and it must have been a spectacular first date! Though Harry and Meghan haven’t disclosed the matchmaker’s identity, many suspect it's Harry’s childhood friend, Violet van Westenholz.

One of the most famous and shortest stories ever written is six words long: “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” For a long time, the story was attributed to the writer Ernest Hemingway; however, versions of the story first appeared when Hemingway was only 7.