- The Super Soaker was designed and invented by a NASA engineer.
- You can tell a turtle's gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt and females hiss.
- Asparagus can grow up to 7 inches in a day.
- The world's first roller coaster opened in 1884 at Coney Island New York.
- Pressurized plane cabin air is the same average humidity of the Sahara Desert.
- Dark roasted coffee beans contain less caffeine than medium roasted ones (the longer a coffee is roasted the more caffeine is burns off).
- There are exactly 1,048,576 bytes in 1 megabyte.
- Norway once knighted a penguin.
- The coins thrown into the Trevi fountain in Italy are collected for charity.
- Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
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