- Walruses are true party animals; they can go without sleep for 84 hours.
- A group of owls is called a parliament.
- Ants can lift 50 times their own weight.
- At the deepest point in the ocean, the water pressure is equivalent to having about 50 jumbo jets piled on top of you.
- The middle finger has the fastest growing nail.
- 22% of people skip lunch daily.
- Different names for the number 0 include zero, nought, naught, nil, zilch and zip.
- It's possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down.
- A bear in hibernation loses up to 25% of its body weight.
- Hawaii was originally called the Sandwich Islands.
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