- Hawaii is the only US state that grows coffee.
- There are more saunas than cars in Finland.
- Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
- Tennis was originally played with bare hands.
- Fresh apples float because 25 percent of their volume is air.
- All of the cobble stones used to line the streets in New York were originally stones found in the hulls of Belgian ships ballast.
- The Arctic Ocean is the smallest in the world.
- Iatrophobia is the fear of doctors.
- Flushable toilets were in use in ancient Rome.
- Porcupines float in water.
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