- Icelandic phone books are listed by first names (not surnames).
- The only continent with no active volcanoes is Australia.
- In American supermarkets peanut butter is one of the most frequently purchased items.
- Reindeer like bananas.
- A tsunami can travel as fast as a jet plane.
- M&M's chocolate stands for the initials for its inventors Mars and Murrie.
- A group of rhinos is called a crash.
- A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation (Death can occur about 10 days without sleep while starvation takes a few weeks).
- Cans of diet soda will float in water but regular soda cans will sink.
- The summer solstice marks the first day of summer and the longest day of the year.
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