Lilo from "Lilo and Stitch" and Samara from "The Ring" were played by the same girl!

That’s right, actress Daveigh Chase was both the lovable, little, Elvis-loving, Hawaiian girl, and the creepy child who escapes from a TV set and goes on a mass killing spree! She played both roles in 2002, at the age of only 12!

 And while they are terrifyingly different from one another, they both received almost the same amount of fame. In 2003, at the age of only 13, Daveigh won the “Best Villain” award at the MTV Movie Awards. “Lilo and Stitch” was nominated for the Oscars. It lost to “Spirited Away”- which she was also in! You can spot Daveigh on Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Cold Case, CSI, etc.

Variety clearly isn’t something that’s missing from her career! In fact, she even dabbled in music for a while and was selected by Steven Spielberg to sing “God Bless America” in A.I.

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There’s a battleship named the USS New York built with 24 tons of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center to commemorate the victims of 9/11!

Steel salvaged from the World Trade Center buildings was examined and 24 tons were found to be strong enough to use again. There were five Naval ships under construction when the steel was salvaged and it was taken to a foundry in Louisiana to be melted down. 

It was a spiritual experience for the workers who took the process very seriously and handled the metal with great care. It was then molded into one of the ship’s bow stems. The governor of New York asked the Navy to name the ship after the attack in memory of what happened. So, they named her the USS New York and her motto became “Never Forget.” 

Two more of the vessels were also named for locations associated with the 9/11 attack. In 2009, when the battleship was commissioned, it made its way from New Orleans harbor to New York for a special ceremony. The battleship was specially made to counter terrorism and holds 700 marines and 360 sailors.

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There are only 5,472,730,538 possible Sudoku puzzles!

While this number may sound extremely large, it is actually much smaller than mathematicians thought it would be. A Sudoku grid is a certain type of Latin square, except slightly different because of the additional aspect of no repeated values in any of the nine blocks. There are a total of 6,670,903,752,021,072,936,960 possible solutions, yet when mathematicians took away rotations, reflections, permutations and relabeling, which takes away the same puzzle in just a different form, the number of solutions was 5,472,730,538. 

Honeybees surround their enemies in order to cook them to death!

We've shown videos of hornets attacking and killing bees before. If you haven't watched that video, I recommend you do, it's amazing.

Japanese Honeybees, however, are not so helpless either. Scientists have observed an interesting technique they use to kill the hornets. If the honeybees manage to surround the hornet, they'll form a bee ball. 

The honeybees' stingers can't penetrate the hornet's shell. Instead, they vibrate their muscles which causes the temperature inside this bee ball to reach 116F (47C), which is enough to heat the hornet to death!

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An island was discovered with people still living like they were in the STONE AGE!