- The first human-made object to break the sound barrier was a whip.
- You burn more calories sleeping than watching television.
- Fish can cough.
- Australia has 10,685 beaches; you could visit a new beach every day for more than 29 years.
- A human brain weighs around 3 pounds.
- Both green and black tea come from leaves of the same tree.
- Here is Pi written to 100 decimal places:
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751
058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679.
- There are more tigers owned by Americans than in the wild worldwide.
- Curly hair follicles are oval, while straight hair follicles are round.
- The Nobel Peace Prize is named for Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.
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