- The Statue of Liberty weighs over 225 tons.
- The 'you are here' arrow on maps is called an ideo locator.
- The makers of the board game Monopoly print over 50 billion dollars worth of Monopoly money every year.
- Albert Einstein never knew how to drive a car.
- A 'googolplex' is the number 1 followed by a googol zeros, a number so ridiculously big that it can't be written because there literally isn't enough room in the entire universe to fit it in!.
- Mount Everest is bigger now than the last time it was measured.
- The dollar was established as the official currency of the US in 1785.
- Dogs sweat through the pads on their feet.
- It's possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down.
- There are over 320 species of parrots.
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