- After bananas a zoo gorilla's favorite food is celery.
- The 50-star flag was designed for a high school class assignment.
- 10% of with world's food supply is consumed by insects.
- Powerful earthquakes can make the Earth spin faster.
- Crocodiles never outgrow their enclosure.
- The makers of the board game Monopoly print over 50 billion dollars worth of Monopoly money every year.
- Bernhard Riemann was an influential German mathematician who contributed to differential geometry and analysis, paving the way for the development of general relativity by Albert Einstein.
- You can tell the sex of a horse by its teeth (most males have 40, females 36).
- 10M bricks were used to build the Empire State Building.
- Sun light can penetrate clean ocean water up to a depth of 73m (240 feet).
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