There are more barrels of bourbon in Kentucky than there are people; you’ll find approximately 8.1 million barrels aging in bourbon warehouses around the state, but only around 4.3 million citizens.

Although they seem tiny when you’re whizzing past them in a car, the broken (separate) white stripes that mark the lanes on U.S. highways are a full ten feet long.

Since 2010, it’s been possible to make phone calls from the top of Mount Everest thanks to 3G cellphone antennas installed by telecommunications company Ncell at Mount Everest’s base camp; a later addition by China Mobile and Huawei Wireless Networks in 2013 upgraded the coverage to 4G.

In 1923, horse jockey Frank Hayes suffered a heart attack in the midst of a race at Belmont Park, New York; his horse finished the race and, in the process, made Hayes the only jockey in history to win a race posthumously.