- The Basenji is a dog that yodels instead of barking.
- The color of a chicken's earlobe is a good indicator of the color of the eggshell it will lay.
- Blue whale tongues can weigh 8,000 pounds, or as much as an elephant, and their hearts weigh close to a ton.
- Apples are more effective at waking you up in the morning than coffee.
- Raindrops are not tear shaped (they more resemble the shape of a tiny hamburger bun).
- Mosquitoes prefer children to adults and blondes to brunettes.
- Sea otters hold each other's paws while sleeping so they don't drift apart.
- Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
- Women were not allowed to vote in France until 1944.
- Over a third of all pineapples come from Hawaii.
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