A living tree never stops growing.
A banana is about 75 percent water.
The world’s fastest-growing plant is the giant water lily, which grows almost a foot a day.
Rafflesia flowers attract pollinating flies by looking and smelling like rotten meat.
One acre of trees absorbs enough carbon dioxide per year to match that emitted by driving a car 26,000 miles.
The world’s largest flower is the Rafflesia arnoldi. It can grow to the size of an umbrella.
The saguaro cactus of the Arizona Desert grows less than one inch in it’s first 10 years.
In the 1800’s an Eggplant was known as a “mad apple” and believed to be poisonous.
One cord of wood can make 7 and a half million toothpicks.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients in Dynamite.
Certain frogs can be frozen solid then thawed, and continue living.
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
The world’s biggest clam weighs almost 500 pounds.
Sharks have no air bladders, so they must swim constantly or they’ll sink, even when they sleep.
Nine out of every 10 living things live in the ocean.
A lobster can lay up to 150,000 eggs at one time.
The world seahorse population has dropped 70% in the past 10 years.
Starfish have eight eyes; one at the end of each leg.
The eyes of a giant squid can be up to 15 inches across - the biggest in the world.
More types of fish swim in Brazil’s Amazon River than in the entire Alantic Ocean.
Tuna swim an average of 9 mph constantly. They never stop moving.
The starfish is one of the only animals who can turn it’s stomach inside-out.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, that makes the catfish rank #1 for an animal having the most taste buds.
A shrimp’s heart is located in it’s head.
Starfish have no brain.
A jellyfish is 95 percent water.
Ostriches stick their heads in the sand to look for water.
Over 1000 birds a year die from smashing into windows.
A hummingbird’s heart beats 1,260 times per minute.
Flamingos lay their eggs on top of volcano-shaped nests made of mud.
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
California condors can fly 10 miles without flapping their wings.
The average adult male shaves off 1 lb of beard per year.
A hard working adult sweats up to 4 gallons per day. Most of the sweat evaporates before a person realizes it’s there though.
Men get hiccups more often than women do.
Nearly all boys grow at least as tall as their mothers.
A person would die if all of the toxic ingredients of one cigarette were directly injected into the bloodstream.
55,700 people in the US are injured by jewelry each year.
Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.
In the course of a lifetime the average person will grow 2 meters of nose hair.
The average American spends six months at red lights throughout his or her life.
By the age of 75, the average American has created about 110,000 pounds of garbage.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
When asked to name a color, 3 out of 5 people will say red.
The average American/Canadian drinks about 600 sodas a year.
In an average lifetime a person will walk the equivilant of three times around the world.
A toothpick is the object most often choked on by Americans.
Flamingo’s can only eat with their head upside down.
The penguin is the only bird who can swim, but cannotfly.
A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.
A leech can drink up to eight time its weight in blood at one sitting.
Only the female mosquito bites, the male does not.
Mosquitos have teeth.
Some dragonflies can fly at speeds of up to 50 miles per hour.
The average garden variety caterpillar has 248 muscles in its head.
Cockroaches can survive underwater for up to 15 minutes.
If you take one pound of cob webs and spread them out in one straight line, it will go around the earth 2 times.
You are more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than a by a poisonous spider.
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, and can pull 30 times its own weight.
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can’t find any food.
The honey bee is the only bee that dies after stinging.
The katydid bug hears through holes in its hind legs.
The praying mantis is the only insect that can turn its head.
The original name for the butterfly was “flutterby”
The average caterpillar has 16 legs.
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
More than 20 million meteroids enter Earth’s atmosphere every day. Most are no bigger than a speck of dust.
Gold is the only metal that doesn’t rust, even if it’s buried in the ground for thousands of years.
The winds on Saturn blow at 1,200 mph. 10 times faster than a strong Earth hurricane.
The average iceberg weighs 20,000,000 tons.
A diamond is the hardest natural substance.
Earth’s oceans contain 7 1/2 million tons of gold, dissolved in the water.
The energy given off by a hurricane in one day would power the entire U.S for three years.
Io, a moon of jupiter, has the most active volcanoes in the solar system.
Rain falls at an average speed of 22 mph.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world’s nuclear weapons combined.
An earthquake on Dec. 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.
A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.
All the moons of the Solar System are named after Greek and Roman mythology, except the moons of Uranus, which are named after Shakesperean charcters.
The largest iceberg ever found was 208 miles long and 60 miles wide. That’s bigger than Massachusetts.
Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.
Most stars shine for at least 10 billion years.
White dwarf stars can be as small as 1,000 miles across.
Footprints astronauts make on the moon will remain for millions of years due to the fact that there’s no wind to blow them away.
The clouds on Venus are made of deadly sulfuric acid.
The rings of Saturn are made of ice chunks; some as small as an ice cube and some are as big as a house.
Saturn isn’t the only planet with rings: Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune have them, too.
It takes light 8 minutes to travel from the sun.
The Earth weighs around 6,588,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
The sun shrinks in diameter by 5 feet every hour.
Dirty snow melts faster than white snow because it’s darker and absorbs more heat.
By some estimates, there are about a million earthquakes a day, although most are too small to be felt by even the most sensitive.
The first novel ever written on a typewriter was “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”
Dr. Seuss coined the word “nerd” in his 1950 book “If I Ran the Zoo”.
On average, a secretary’s left hand does 56% of the typing.
The words ‘’stewardesses'’ and ‘’reverberated'’ are the longest words (12 letters) typed with only the left hand.
The longest words that can be typed using only the right hand in proper typing form are ‘’lollipop” and “monopoly”.
Skepticisms is the longest word that alternates hands when typing.
A chinese checkerboard has 121 holes.
In a deck of cards, all four Kings have beards, but only three of them also have mustaches. The one without a mustache is the King of Hearts.
Five-Card Poker has 2,598,960 possible hands.
More Monopoly money is printed in a year, than real money printed throughout the world.
A soccer ball has 32 panels.
Pittsburgh is the only U.S. city with 3 sports teams that wear the same
colors.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year’s supply of footballs.
Golf balls can reach speeds of 170 miles an hour.
The “you are here” arrow on maps is called an ideo locator.
Chances that an American lives within 50 miles of where they grew up: 1 in 2.
On an average day 102 people visit the Dr. Pepper museum in Waco, TX.
State with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska.
Ten percent of the Russian government’s income comes from the sale of vodka.
A newborn kangaroo is small enough to fit into a teaspoon.
Murphy’s Oil Soap is the chemical most commonly used to clean elephants.
The acid in a person’s stomach is corrosive enough to melt iron.
A female african elephant can be pregnant for almost 2 years.
A cow can give 100 quarts of milk per week.
Most cows give more milk when they listen to music.
Cats can make over 1,000 different vocal sounds, and dogs can make
only about 10.
An anteater sticks its tongue in and out 100 times per minute to slurp up its food.
Spotted skunks do handstands before they spray.
Giraffes have the same number of neck bones as humans: seven.
An elephant’s trunk can hold two gallons of water.
Giraffes have no vocal chords.
The tongue of a blue whale weighs more than most elephants.
Dogs sweat through their paw pads.
Cows can smell odors six miles away.
Horses can sleep standing up.
A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21-inch tongue.
A dog can understand between 35 to 40 commands.
After bananas, a zoo gorilla’s favorite food is celery.
It is possible to lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs, because cow’s knees can’t bend properly to walk back down.
Gorillas stick their tongues out when angry.
The United States has never lost a war in which mules were used.
A full grown bear can run as fast as a horse.
3000 of every 3001 calico kittens are female.
Nose prints are used to identify dogs, just like humans use finger prints.
Bulls are colorblind, therefore will usually charge at a matador’s waving cape no matter what color it is — be it red or neon yellow.
When baby giraffes are born, they drop six feet to the ground and land on their heads.
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
Coca-Cola would be green if colouring weren’t added to it.
On average a hedgehog's heart beats 300 times a minute.
More people are killed each year from bees than from snakes.
The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long.
Camels have three eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
The placement of a donkey's eyes in its' heads enables it to see all four feet at all times.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Slugs have 4 noses.
Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.
A man named Charles Osborne had the hiccups for 69 years.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is 13 seconds.
The worlds oldest piece of chewing gum is 9000 years old.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.
A mole can dig a tunnel 300 feet long in just one night.
A dog’s heart beats 40 times a minute faster than yours.
The only domestic animal that wasn’t mentioned in the bible is a cat.
The elephant is the only animal with four knees.
A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foot tall child inside.
Kangaroos can’t walk backwards.
There are ten times as many sheep as people in Australia.
Dogs can hear sounds that you cant.
A U.S. backed government study found that pigs can become alcoholics.
Cat’s urine glows under a black-light.
Porcupines float in water.
The average person has 100,000 hairs on their head.
A squirrel lives about 9 years.
A cat has a normal body temperature of 101.5. A dog’s is 101.
The sloth moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on it’s fur.
In a 1-life-time average person will spend 24 years sleeping.
A person could grow 600 complete eyelashes in a life time.
The hurricane plant has holes in its leaves, which keep it from being destroyed by wind.
The canopy of a rainforest is so thick, only one percent of sunlight reaches the ground.