- Don't like mosquitoes? Get a bat. They could eat 3,000 insects a night.
- The fastest gust of wind ever recorded on Earth was 253 miles per hour.
- Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys.
- Horses sleep standing up.
- The Statue of Liberty features 7 points in her crown- one for each of the continents.
- It takes an interaction of 72 muscles to produce human speech.
- Crocodiles are responsible for over a 1,000 deaths each year by the Banks of the Nile river.
- Instant coffee was invented in 1901.
- Americans consume over 10 billion bowls of soup each year.
- A garfish has green bones.
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