- On the average there are 8 peas in a pod.
- There are more tigers owned by Americans than in the wild worldwide.
- Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth.
- The word fortnight is a contraction of the 2 words 'fourteen nights'.
- The human body creates 2,500,000 new red blood cells every second.
- The game of basketball was first played using a soccer ball and two peach baskets.
- Cooking or freezing does not reduce the heat (spiciness) of a chile pepper.
- Along with arithmetic, geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics.
- Achluophobiais the fear of the dark.
- Dolphin's can detect underwater sounds from 24 km (15 miles) away.
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