Your brain is 80% water.
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
Queen Victoria was the first European monarch to use a telephone.
A shark can grow a new set of teeth in a week.
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
Elephants are the only animal that can't jump.
Research indicates that mosquitoes are attracted to people who have recently eaten bananas.
In 1977 there were 37 Elvis impersonators in the world. In 1993, there were 48,000. At this rate, by the year 2010 one out of every three people will be an Elvis impersonator.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear pants.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
If you started counting, and said one number every second, it would take you 33 years to get to 1 billion.
The only country whose name begins with an A but doesn't end in an A is Afghanastan.
The mad Emperor Caligula once decided to go to war with the Roman God of the sea, Poseidon, and ordered his soldiers to throw their spears into the water at random.
Flamingos can only eat with their heads upside down.
There is a 1 in 685,000 chance that you will accidentally drown in your own bath.
Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
It takes forty minutes to hard boil an ostrich egg.
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