- Mistletoe is evergreen -even after a tree's leaves have fallen, it stays green.
- A connected bunch of bananas is called a hand and individual bananas are called fingers.
- There are a million ants for every person on Earth.
- The average human drinks over 60,566 litres (16,000 gallons) of water in a lifetime.
- Coffee is the most popular beverage worldwide with over 400 billion cups consumed each year.
- Giant tortoises can live in captivity longer than any other animal.
- Maine produces more toothpicks than any other state in the U.S.
- Snakes can't bite in rivers or swamps (they would drown otherwise).
- New born babies have 350 bones (by age 5 the amount of bones merges to 206).
- Russia and the United States of America are less than 3 miles apart.
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