- The average person spends two weeks of their life waiting at traffic lights.
- Ants won't cross a chalk line.
- The dollar was established as the official currency of the US in 1785.
- The yo-yo was originally used as a weapon for hunting the in the Philippines.
- Denver sits at 5,280 feet elevation (1 mile above sea level).
- Human eyes have over two million working parts.
- A Chinese checkerboard has 121 holes.
- The study of insects is called entomology.
- Only female mosquitoes bite.
- When grazing or resting, cows tend to align their bodies with the magnetic north and south poles.
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