Until 1857, any foreign coins made of precious metal were legal tender in the United States.
Coconuts kill more people in the world than sharks do. Approximately 150 people are killed each year by coconuts.
Each 5 m.p.h. you drive over 60 m.p.h. is like paying an additional $.10 a gallon for gas!
Reindeer milk has more fat than cow milk.
Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
Male monkeys lose the hair on their heads in the same way men do.
In one day, a full grown redwood tree expels more than 2 tons of water through its leaves.
The cruise liner, 'Queen Elizabeth 2', moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
The practice of identifying baseball players by number was started by the Yankees in 1929.
Goat's milk is used more widely throughout the world than cow's milk.
A comet's tail always points away from the sun.
One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
20% of tuxedo rentals take place in May.
Giant Panda Bears give birth to a 4 ounce Baby Panda!
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark!
Crocodile babies don't have sex chromosomes; the temperature at which the egg develops determines gender.
In 1999, Pepsi, Inc. paid $0.00 in income tax!
You inhale about 700,000 of your own skin flakes each day.
In 2004, The Japanese Ice Cream Association promoted ?raw horse flesh? ice cream in hopes that it would boost the popularity of ice cream!
A rodent's teeth never stop growing.
The United kingdom eats more cans of baked beans than the rest of the world combined.
The average tastebud lives only 10 days before it dies and is replaced by a new one.
Wine will spoil if exposed to light; hence tinted bottles.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Penguins can convert salt water into fresh water.