- The official state gem of Washington is petrified wood.
- The blueprints for the Eiffel Tower covered more than 14,000 square feet of drafting paper.
- There are over 225,000 trees in New York's Central Park.
- Tug-of-war was an Olympic sport in the early 1900s.
- Less than 3% of the water on Earth is fresh.
- The word 'almost' is the longest in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
- A chameleon's tongue is twice as long as its body.
- German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz lived between 1646 and 1716, developing important calculus concepts and mathematical notation practices.
- A queen bee can lay up to 3,000 eggs in one day.
- 2 out of 5 people marry their first love.
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