- A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in tall.
- American's eat 18 billion hot dogs a year.
- Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa (better known as Fibonacci) lived between the years 1170 and 1250 and is best known today for Fibonacci numbers, the number sequence named after him. Fibonacci introduced the number sequence to Western Europe in his book 'Liber Abaci' after they had been described earlier by Indian mathematicians.
- The average porcupine has 30,000 spikes.
- Glass balls can bounce higher than rubber ones.
- Sponges hold more cold water than hot.
- Crocodiles are responsible for over a 1,000 deaths each year by the Banks of the Nile river.
- The TV sitcom Seinfeld was originally called 'The Seinfeld Chronicles'.
- Bananas contain no fat, cholesterol or sodium.
- When a koala is born, it is about the size of a jelly bean.
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