- Plants, like humans, can run a fever if they are sick.
- A ten-gallon hat holds less than a gallon of liquid.
- The stomach acids found in a snakes stomach can digest bones and teeth but not fur or hair.
- Tarantula spiders can survive 2 and a half years without food.
- Dairy cows drink up to 50 gallons of water per day.
- American Black bears are not just black but include bears of varying colors including blonde, cinnamon, brown, white and even silver-blue.
- The first US coast to coast aeroplane flight occurred in 1911 and took 49 days.
- New York was once called New Amsterdam.
- A flipped coin is more likely to land on the side it started on.
- The state of Alabama once financed the construction of a bridge by holding a rooster auction.
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