Punctuation didn't exist in writing until the late 15th century
Canada's east coast is closer to London than to its own west coast.
Humans are capable of distinguishing 300,000 shades of color.
A dog's heart beats 40 times faster than does a human's.
A hummingbird's wings beat 50 times per second.
One cubic foot of soil contains more living organisms than there are people living in China.
Gallium, a rare metal, will melt in a human hand.
If certain parts of the brain receive electrical stimulation, long-lost memories can be revived.
The Hunza of northwest Kashmir are the only people known to be completely
free of
cancer.
The trunk of an elephant is operated by 40,000 muscles.
In
1859 twenty-four rabbits were released in Australia. Within six years the
population grew to
two
million.
The giant clam of the South Seas grows to over four feet long, and a shell
weighing 734
pounds has been found.
Because of its webbed toes and speedy gait, the basilisk, a lizard in Central
and South
America, can walk on water.
If human babies grew as fast as baby blue whales (and aren't we all glad
they don't),
humans would be about 65 feet tall by age 2.
Mosquitoes have killed more people than have all the world's wars combined.
The smallest marine snails in the world live in Japan -- between grains of beach sand.
In Laos, distance is measured in terms of the time it takes to cook rice.
A hummingbird can fly 500 miles in 24 hours.
The Mahogany clam is known to live for 150 years.
An octopus has three hearts.
Mosquitoes are attracted to blue more than any other color.
One square inch of human skin contains 19 million cells.