- Pound cake got its name from the original recipe which called for a pound of butter.
- There is no rice in rice paper.
- If left in the dark, goldfish may turn a whitish color.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- Large rain drops can fall at speeds of 20 mph.
- A crocodile can't move its tongue.
- All scorpions glow.
- The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons.
- More people are killed from bees than snakes.
- Clothes dried outside smell better because of a process called photolysis (sunlight breaks down compounds that cause odor).
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