- Your most active muscles are in your eye.
- In the U.S., there is an official rock, paper, scissors league.
- The average raindrop takes 2 minutes to hit the ground.
- Snails take the longest naps with some lasting as long as three years.
- Ancient Egyptians used geometry principles as far back as 3000 BC, using equations to approximate the area of circles among other formulas.
- Dark roasted coffee beans contain less caffeine than medium roasted ones (the longer a coffee is roasted the more caffeine is burns off).
- The most common disease is tooth decay.
- A connected bunch of bananas is called a hand and individual bananas are called fingers.
- More people are killed by hippopotamuses then by lions, elephants and water buffalos combined.
- The D.C. in Washington D.C. stands for District of Columbia.
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