- Blue and white are the most common school colors.
- The teeth of a viperfish are so sharp and long that if it closed its mouth with the teeth inside, it would pierce its brain.
- The color of a chile pepper is no indication of its heat (usually the smaller the the hotter).
- 1 gigayear = 1,000,000,000,000 years.
- An octopus pupil is rectangular.
- Greek mathematician Euclid is often referred to as the 'Father of Geometry' for his revolutionary ideas and influential textbook called 'Elements' that he wrote around the year 300 BC.
- The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze over completely.
- The world's first paved streets were laid in Rome in 170 B.C.
- Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz.
- A connected bunch of bananas is called a hand and individual bananas are called fingers.
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