- In France, it's illegal for employers to send emails after work hours.
- Pez was invented in 1927.
- Every day 7% of the US eats at McDonalds.
- The 50-star flag was designed for a high school class assignment.
- Only male turkeys gobble.
- There are over 97,000 km (60,000 miles) of blood vessels in the average person.
- The first sport to be filmed was boxing in 1894.
- Much of the work done by Leibniz and Newton is based on theories by French philosopher Rene Descartes. As well as his many contributions to philosophy, Descartes also had a huge impact on mathematics, creating analytical geometry, developing a system that describes geometry using algebra, contributing to optics and much more.
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- Hippopotamus milk is pink.
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