- There is a pink lake in Australia named Lake Hillier.
- A humming bird flaps its wings up to 90 times a second (5,400 times a minute).
- The first hot air balloon passengers were a sheep, duck, and rooster.
- Penguins are only found in the southern hemisphere primarily in Antarctica (excluding zoos above the equator).
- The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick' is said to be the toughest tongue twister.
- The yoke of an Ostrich egg is the largest cell in the world.
- You can tell a turtle's gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt and females hiss.
- The first parachute jump from plane was in 1918 over France.
- If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
- Artificial Christmas trees have outsold real ones every year since 1991.
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