The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
Black bears are not always black. They can be brown, cinnamon, yellow, and sometimes white.
Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison were all 27 years old when they died.
Some species of fish have voices!
On average, it takes 660 days from conception for an elephant to give birth.
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world!
None of the Beatles knew how to read music. (Paul McCartney eventually taught himself.)\"
People that suffer from gum disease are twice as likely to have a stroke or heart attack.
If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, there would only be 15 people living there.
The Earth gets heavier each day by tons, as meteoric dust settles on it.
In Kentucky, it is illegal to carry ice-cream in your back pocket.
A broken clock is always right twice a day.
About half of all Americans are on a diet on any given day.
Gold leaf is attached to paper or plaster with egg whites, the same now as in ancient times!
If your stomach didn't produce a new layer of mucous every two weeks, it would digest itself.
Baby whales grow at an average rate of 10lbs per hour!
There are 206 bones in the human body!
The first bomb dropped on Germany in WWII killed the only elephant in the Berlin zoo!
Turkeys can reproduce without having sex.
The U.S. Government will not allow portraits of living persons to appear on stamps.
Dirty snow melts faster than clean.
Yahoo! was originally called 'Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web'.
On average, a disposable diaper can hold up to 7 pounds of liquid.
There are 92 known cases of nuclear bombs lost at sea.
One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!