- Australia has 10,685 beaches; you could visit a new beach every day for more than 29 years.
- Astronauts can't burp in space.
- A blue whale can weigh as much as 30 elephants and as long as 3 large tour buses.
- Employees of the Vatican pay no income tax.
- About 1/3 of your taste buds are numbed while flying.
- That you burn more calories eating celery than it contains (the more you eat the thinner you become).
- Folklore states that if you split a double strawberry in half and share it with the opposite sex, you'll soon fall in love.
- You can't hum while plugging your nose.
- Ostriches have a 14 meter (46 foot) long small intestine.
- A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation (Death can occur about 10 days without sleep while starvation takes a few weeks).
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