- A bear in hibernation loses up to 25% of its body weight.
- Elevenses is a break for light refreshments taken at 11AM in England.
- Tiger shark embryos begin attacking each other in their mother's womb before they are even born.
- Lightning strikes the Earth 6,000 times every minute.
- Squids can have eyes the size of a volleyball.
- An alligator can go through 3,000 teeth in a lifetime. .
- Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
- The Empire State Building in New York weighs over 365,000 tons.
- The yo-yo was originally used as a weapon for hunting the in the Philippines.
- There are more chickens than people.
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