- Green tea has 50% more vitamin C than black tea.
- Only pregnant females polar bears hibernate.
- The first paperback book was printed by Penguin Publishing in 1935.
- There is no butter in buttermilk.
- New born babies have 350 bones (by age 5 the amount of bones merges to 206).
- A dragonfly can fly at 40kph (25mph).
- The longest possible eclipse of the sun is 7.31 minutes.
- Male humpback whales can sing up to half an hour nonstop and even mimic other whale songs.
- Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today's measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.14).
- Blueberries are one of the only natural foods that are truly blue in color.
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