- Honey is the only natural food which never spoils.
- The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.
- If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
- Arachibutyrophobia is fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.
- The golden ratio of approximately 1.618 between two quantities such as lengths often appears in nature (tree branching, uncurling ferns, pine cone arrangements etc) and has been used throughout history to create aesthetically pleasing designs and art works such as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
- Polar bears are strictly carnivores.
- A nanosecond is one billionth of a second.
- A woodpecker can peck 20 times a second.
- The chicken is the closest living relative of Tyrannosaurus Rex.
- Flamingos turn pink from eating shrimp.
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