Everything weighs one percent less at the equator.
Most stars shine for at least 10 billion years.
Thefastest moving muscle in the human body is the one that opens and closes the eyelid.
The Pentium II chip can make more than half-a-billion calculations per second.
Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the mornings.
The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.
The United States National Anthem is the only anthem in the world that doesn't have the name of the country in it.
Nanotechnology has produced a guitar no bigger than a blood cell. The guitar, 10 micrometers long, has six strummable strings.
Pain signals travel along hour nerves at 50 feet per second.
Six people can feast on one ostrich egg for breakfast.
We don't know if there's a Heaven on earth, but there is a Hell, it's a town in Norway.
After Custer's Last Stand, Sioux indian leader Chief Sitting Bull became an entertainer and toured the country with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
Dirty snow melts faster than white snow because it's darker and absorbs more heat.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients in Dynamite.
A telephone signal travels a 100,000 miles per second.
An Elephant is not afraid of a mouse.
U.S. Patent number 3,593,345 was grantedfor the "Whisper Seat", a toilet seat with a soundproof lining so that noise won't be heard by others.
The honey bee is the only bee that dies after stinging.
The only person who's birthday is a legal holiday all across the U.S. is George Washington.
Plymouth Rock weighs seven tons.
Eli Whitney didn't do to great with the Cotton Gin but made out pretty good as a gun manufacturer.
The Rollar Coaster was invented in the 17th century in Russia.
The human brain is 80% water.
Know what Mafia means? Morte Allafrancia Italia Anela "Death to the French is Italy's cry!"
An average pair of feet will sweat a pint of perspiration a day.
The peacock is a male and the female a peahen.
A flamingo's can only eat with their head upside down.
Check this out, look at your keyboard, the only ten letter word that you can spell with the top row of letters is "typewriter".
Scientists estimate up to 20 percent of the world's plant and animal species may be extinct by the year 2001.
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