- The most common mental illnesses are anxiety and depression.
- Dinosaurs lived on Earth for over 165 million years before they became extinct.
- A fly's reaction time is 30 milliseconds.
- The shortest war in history lasted for only 38 minutes.
- Once a women reachs the age of 30 they lose 1% of their bone mass every year thereafter (by the time a women is 50 she will have lost 20%).
- Sesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
- Crocodiles are responsible for over a 1,000 deaths each year by the Banks of the Nile river.
- The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.
- 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321.
- 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).
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