- A very small raindrop can travel up to 7 minutes from the sky before reaching you.
- The first paperback book was printed by Penguin Publishing in 1935.
- Not all your taste buds are on our tongue (10% are on the insides of you cheeks).
- A group of jellyfish is called a smack.
- The odds of being stuck by lighting is 280,000 to 1.
- Diamonds mined in Brazil are much harder than those found in Africa.
- A full moon is 9 times brighter than a half moon.
- The official state gem of Washington is petrified wood.
- Applesauce was the first food eaten in space by astronauts.
- Lion's can't roar until the age of 2.
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