Pompeii had at least 80 thermopolia, counters where hot food and drinks were served from large jars sunk into masonry.

In 1991, University of Cambridge computer researchers pointed a camera at a corridor coffee pot so colleagues would not climb several flights of stairs only to find it empty.

On New Year's Eve 1853, natural-history artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins hosted scientists and Crystal Palace officials inside the mold of an Iguanodon sculpture.

In 1927, University of Queensland physicist Thomas Parnell poured hot pitch into a sealed glass funnel.

Conservators working on artefacts from Cape Adare found a roughly century-old Huntley & Palmers fruitcake still wrapped in paper inside the remains of a badly corroded tin.

Danionella cerebrum is translucent and no longer than about 12 millimeters, yet males can make pulses measuring more than 140 decibels at a distance of 10 to 12 millimeters.