- The first parachute jump from plane was in 1918 over France.
- Most birds eat twice their body weight each day.
- At birth dalmations are always white.
- When your face blushes so does your stomach lining.
- Giant Pandas eat approximately 28 pounds of bamboo a day which is over 5 tons per year!.
- The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons.
- Americans eat 35,000 tons of pasta a year.
- Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today's measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.14).
- Porcupines float in water.
- Trees do not have life expectancies (most can grown indefinitely).
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