Chimpanzees can identify each other by looking at photographs of their bottoms.
Vultures can turn a dead body into a skeleton in under five hours.
The Northern Hemisphere is 1.5oC hotter than the Southern Hemisphere.
A lobster's brain is in its throat.
In 1883, a man named Jack Ferry crossed the English Channel on a floating tricycle.
During its restoration in 1982, the Statue of Liberty's head was accidentally installed
two feet off-centre.
Wherever a leaf is in the world, its internal temperature is always 21 degrees C.
In 1990, there were no roundabouts in the US; today there are more than 3,000.
There is a 12% chance that a game of Monopoly will go on indefinitely.
The crunch of a crisp or an apple in your mouth is a mini sonic boom.
The 'Masters in Lunacy' were Victorian officials who investigated whether people claiming to
be insane were faking it.
'The Just Missed It Club' was for people who almost sailed on the Titanic.
Two weeks after it sank, it had 118,337 members.
At any one time there are 100,000 ships at sea.
The first telegram—sent on May 24th, 1884 by Samuel B. Morse—read “What hath god
wrought!”
Blind people are twice as likely to smell things in their dreams as sighted people.
There are 60 people in Venezuela whose first name is Hitler.