Ostriches are often not taken seriously. They can run faster than horses, and the males can roar like lions.
Sharks and rays are the only animals known to man that don't get cancer. Scientists believe this has something to do with the fact that they don't have bones, but cartilage.
Cats sleep up to eighteen hours a day, but never quite as deep as humans. Instead, they fall asleep quickly and wake up intermittently to check to see if their environment is still safe.
Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day that in any other weather.
A dragonfly flaps its wings 20 to 40 times a second, bees and houseflies 200 times, some mosquitoes 600 times, and a tiny gnat 1,000 times.
In South Africa, termites are often roasted and eaten by the handful, like pretzels or popcorn.
Native Americans never actually ate turkey; killing such a timid bird was thought to indicate laziness.
There is a prison in Ossining, New York named "Sing Sing."
John Hancock was the only one of fifty signers of the Declaration of Independence who actually signed it on July 4.
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
Approximately 16 Canadians have their appendices removed, when not required, every day.
During his or her lifetime, the average human will grow 590 miles of hair.
The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
Dark Side of The Moon (a Pink Floyd album) stayed on the top 200 Billboard charts for 741 weeks! That is 14 years.
Tickets for Frank Sinatra's first solo performance at the Paramount Theatre in New York City in 1942, sold for 35 cents each.
Theaters in Glendale, California can show horror films only on Monday, Tuesday, or WednChewing gum is outlawed in Singapore because it is a means of "tainting an environment free of dirt." (ahahhaa... they had to include this)
Every citizen of Kentucky is required by law to take a bath at least once a year.
Your statistical chance of being murdered is one in twenty thousand.
Two out of three people sleep on their sides, and they're about equally divided as to WHICH side. Of the remainder, slightly more sleep on their stomachs than sleep on their backs.
The English-language alphabet originally had only 24 letters. One missing letter was J, which was the last letter to be added to the alphabet. The other latecomer to the alphabet was U.
Incredible means not believable. Incredulous means not believing. When someone's story is truly incredible, you ought to be incredulous.
The ZIP in zip code stands for "Zone Improvement Plan."
The Bible is the number one shoplifted book in America.
On the new hundred dollar bill the time on the clock tower of Independence Hall is 4:10.
Parker Brothers prints about 50 billion dollars worth of Monopoly money in one year.
