- Giant Pandas eat approximately 28 pounds of bamboo a day which is over 5 tons per year!.
- The national anthems of Japan, Jordan, and San Marino each have only 4 lines.
- The word fortnight is a contraction of the 2 words 'fourteen nights'.
- U.S. paper currency isn't made of paper u2013 it's actually a blend of cotton and linen.
- Your liver has over 500 functions.
- The pupils in goats' eyes are rectangular.
- 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.
- A female ferret is called a jill.
- Siderodromophobia is the fear of trains.
- The state of Alabama once financed the construction of a bridge by holding a rooster auction.
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