- Only female mosquitoes bite.
- Flushable toilets were in use in ancient Rome.
- The first paperback book was printed by Penguin Publishing in 1935.
- Dark green lettuce leaves are more nutritious than lighter ones.
- Chameleons can move both their eyes in different directions at the same time.
- 8.5 million tons of water evaporates from the Dead Sea every day.
- There are more skin cancer cases caused by tanning beds than there are lung cancer cases caused by smoking.
- There are over 10 trillion living cells in the human body.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- The aphid insect is born pregnant.
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