- Folklore states that if you split a double strawberry in half and share it with the opposite sex, you'll soon fall in love.
- Dry ice transforms directly from being a solid to a gas.
- Emus can't walk backwards.
- One of the ingredients needed to make dynamite is peanuts.
- Cats have a peripheral vision of 285 degrees.
- Every ton of recycled paper saves about 17 trees.
- The grapefruit gets its name from the way it grows in clusters like grapes on a vine.
- Venetian blinds were invented in Japan.
- Hilton was the first international hotel chain.
- Brontology is the study of thunder.
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