- Police dogs are trained to respond to commands in foreign languages (usually German or Hungarian).
- If a Donkey and a Zebra have a baby, it is called a Zonkey.
- The word 'almost' is the longest in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
- What comes after a million, billion and trillion? A quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion and undecillion.
- Over a third of all pineapples come from Hawaii.
- Elevenses is a break for light refreshments taken at 11AM in England.
- Jousting is the official sport of Maryland.
- Ocean algae produces about 75 percent of the world's oxygen.
- The subject of the first printed book in England was about chess.
- An elephants ears are used to regulate body temperature.
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