- Cats spend 66% of their life asleep.
- The shell is 12% of an eggs weight.
- The most common Spanish surname is Garcia.
- A camel can drink 25 gallons of water in less than three minutes.
- That the first MTV video played was 'Video killed the radio star' by the Buggles.
- A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation (Death can occur about 10 days without sleep while starvation takes a few weeks).
- German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz lived between 1646 and 1716, developing important calculus concepts and mathematical notation practices.
- Ancient Romans thought strawberries could cure bad breath and chronic fainting.
- Flys always launch backwards for a quick getaway.
- The dishwasher was invented in 1889.
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