The wasabi we know in the U.S. isn’t the real wasabi.

If you like sushi with wasabi, you would probably like to know that most of the wasabi we eat in America isn’t real. The real one is made from the expensive wasabi root, as the Chicago Tribune mentions. It seems that the one we’re eating is basically white horseradish mixed with ground mustard seeds and green dye.

Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt once shared a joyride.

Back in 1933, Eleanor Roosevelt and Amelia Earhart decided to leave for a fancy dinner in Washington, D.C. As the Baltimore Sun stated, they hopped in an Eastern Air Transport Curtis Condor for a quick ride to Baltimore and back. Earhart was wearing a white silk gown.

Green Eggs and Ham started as a bet.

The Dr. Seuss classic grew out of a bet with his own editor that he wasn’t able to make a book using fewer than 50 different words. Even more, the editor, Random House founder Bennett Cerf, bet $50 on the line and lost all of it.

Andy Warhol was the main inspiration for Louboutins’ red soles.

Louboutin shoes are fairly known not only for their high price but also for their famous red soles. However, few people know that Andy Warhol originally inspired the color. As mentioned in The New Yorker, Warhol’s drawing of flowers inspired Christian Louboutin, and that’s how he got the idea. He took red nail polish from his assistant to paint the color at the bottom of the kicks.