- A Galapagos tortoise can take up to three weeks to digest a meal.
- Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras lived around the year 500 BC and is known for his Pythagorean theorem relating to the three sides of a right angle triangle: a^2 + b^2 = c^2.
- Australia has the largest sheep population.
- Blue whale tongues can weigh 8,000 pounds, or as much as an elephant, and their hearts weigh close to a ton.
- Light is electro magnetic radiation.
- The first drug that was sold as a water soluble tablet was aspirin in 1900.
- Natural gas has no smell (the odor is artificially added so that people are able to identify leaks).
- In 1642 French mathematician Blaise Pascal invented the mechanical calculator.
- A rainbow can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon.
- Money is the number one thing that couples argue about.
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