- Sound travels 4.3 times faster through water than in air.
- Snakes eat their body weight in one year.
- Two of Snapple's founders were window washers in Brooklyn.
- Strawberries are actually members of the rose family.
- Gorillas can't swim.
- A Galapagos tortoise can take up to three weeks to digest a meal.
- What comes after a million, billion and trillion? A quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion and undecillion.
- The average person has 10,000 taste buds.
- Chalk is made from tiny plankton fossils.
- Dolphins can kill sharks by ramming them with their snout.
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