- You cannot taste food until mixed with saliva.
- Frogs never drink.
- Toads only eat moving prey.
- A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
- Archimedes of Syracuse lived around the year 250 BC and played a large role in the history of geometry including a method for determining the volume of objects with irregular shapes.
- It takes an interaction of 72 muscles to produce human speech.
- 8.5 million tons of water evaporates from the Dead Sea every day.
- The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons.
- The average Americans diet consists of 55% junk food.
- You're more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
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