- About 1/3 of your taste buds are numbed while flying.
- The Bee Hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
- The 'black box' that houses an airplanes voice recorder is actually orange so it can be more easily detected amid the debris of a plane crash.
- Useful life of a modern toilet is 50 years.
- The most commonly forgotten item for travelers is their toothbrush.
- You burn more calories sleeping than watching television.
- Elephants can smell water from miles away.
- Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours.
- Canada has more doughnut shops per capita than any other country.
- There are over 900 species of bats.
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