- Butterflies can taste with their hind feet.
- No number from one to 999 includes the letter "a" in its word form.
- Diamonds mined in Brazil are much harder than those found in Africa.
- Fresh apples float because they contain 25% air.
- Trees do not have life expectancies (most can grown indefinitely).
- Born in France, Pierre de Fermat was an amateur mathematician who is best known for Fermat's Last Theorem.
- Panda bears eat up to 16 hours a day.
- The Chinese used fingerprints as a method of identification as far back as AD 700.
- Cans of diet soda will float in water but regular soda cans will sink.
- Giraffes can't cough.
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