- The average soccer ball is made up of 32 leather panels and held together by 642 stitches.
- Bats are the only mammals that fly.
- The word 'almost' is the longest in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
- The Giant Pacific Octopus can squeeze its entire body through a hole the size of its beak.
- 20% of China's plants are used in medicine.
- The first drug that was sold as a water soluble tablet was aspirin in 1900.
- A bumble bee flaps its wings at 160 times a second.
- Giant tortoises can live in captivity longer than any other animal.
- Two of Snapple's founders were window washers in Brooklyn.
- Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today's measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.14).
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