- Water can boil and freeze at the same time.
- A camel can drink 25 gallons of water in less than three minutes.
- Americans consume over 10 billion bowls of soup each year.
- The average raindrop weighs less than an eyelash.
- An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
- That in the 17th century the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places (today to 1.2411 trillion).
- Cows do not have upper front teeth.
- The Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters.
- The total mass of ants on the planet would actually outweigh all of the world’s wild birds and mammals.
- The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.
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