Cockroaches can live for 9 days
after their head has been cut off. The world's largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to 5 ft. in length. The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914. A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.
In Cleveland, Ohio it is illegal to catch mice without a hunting license
Ernest Vincent Wright wrote a novel with over 50,000 words,
none of which containing the letter "E".
No president of the United States was an only child.
Apples are more effective at keeping people awake in the morning than caffeine.
Mosquitoes have 47 teeth.
Most lipstick is partailly made of fish scales
Ants never sleep.
No word in the the English dictionary rhymes with "MONTH".
The human brain is 80% water.
Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on chewing gum.
The parachute was invented by DiVinci in 1515.
Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.
There are 86,400 seconds in day.
A goldfish has a memory span of about 3 seconds.
Singapore has only one train station.
The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons
Tablecloths were originally meant to be served as towels with which dinner guests could wipe their hands and faces after eating.
Until the nineteenth century,
solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.
When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second.
A violin contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.
During your lifetime, you'll eat about 60,000 pounds of food, that's the weight of about 6 elephants.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.
