- All hurricanes form over the sea and can last up to 10 days.
- The Internet was originally called ARPANet (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) designed by the US department of defense.
- Mexican jumping beans jump to get out of sunlight.
- Penguins mate for life and both parents care for their young.
- There are over 2,500 apple varieties grown in the U.S.
- What comes after a million, billion and trillion? A quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion and undecillion.
- Cans of diet soda will float in water but regular soda cans will sink.
- 'underground' is the only word that begins and ends with the letters 'und'.
- A ten-gallon hat holds less than a gallon of liquid.
- Before 1850 golf balls were made of leather and were stuffed with feathers.
|