- Frogs don't usually swallow water (they absorb most of the moisture they need through their skin).
- Snakes can't blink.
- The rarest type of diamond is green.
- A blue whale can weigh as much as 30 elephants and as long as 3 large tour buses.
- It takes 1 alligator to make a pair of shoes and 3 for a pair of boots.
- The odds of being struck by lightning are 600,000 to 1.
- Along with arithmetic, geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics.
- The only continent with no active volcanoes is Australia.
- Australia has the largest sheep population.
- 1 nautical knot equates to 1.852 Kph (1.150 mph).
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