The giant Anteaters of South America have front feet that are turned inward so that it walks on it's knuckles.
Hersey's Kisses are so called because the machine that makes them looks like it is kissing the conveyor belt.
The "American" log cabin actually got it's start in Sweden, where it was used for hundreds of years. Swedish colonizers who settled in New Sweden, now Delaware, brought the idea with them.
There are over 170 different nationalities and more than 200 languages and dialects spoken in the Soviet Union.
A Jerboa, also known as the desert rat, looks like a tiny kangaroo. It's hind legs are 4 times as long as it's front legs. When frightened it can leap as jump as far as 10 feet to escape a predator.
The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia has twice as many bathrooms than they need. When it was built in the 1940s Virginia still had laws that required separate toilet facilities for blacks and whites.
In central Canada is a spruce tree forest that is so dense and impenetrable that when it snows in winter the snow stays on top of the trees like a blanket, while the ground below stays bare.
Orbiting the Earth for an indeterminite time, somewhere out in space with all the other junk, is the Hasselblad camera dropped by U.S. Astronaut Michael Collins during a space walk.
The skin of a Mole has more organs for detecting touch than any other animal.
An ant can lift 50 times it's own weight and pull 30 times it's own weight.
One of the most popular and important playwrights of the Eizabethan age was Thomas Watson. Not a single one of his dramas exist today.
Influenza is so named because the cause of the disease was thought to be the "evil influence" of the stars.
The African species of rhinocerous has two long horns, the Sumatran rhino has two short horns and the Indian and Java rhinos have a single horn.
In 1987 American Airlines saved $40,000 by eliminating one olive from each salad served to first class passengers.
A Mosquito has forty-seven teeth.
Though the War of Independence, which lasted six years and covered most of the thirteen colonies, George Washingtons Continental Army never consisted of more than 22,000 troops at any one time.
Sheep had been domesticated by mankind as long as 12,ooo years ago.
Edmund Ruffin, the man who fired the first shot of the Civil War at Fort Sumter, committed suicude after the surrender of the Confederacy at Appomattox.
If you were to enter the Panama Canal from the Atlantic ocean, it would be the western side of the canal. And leaving into the Pacicic would be the eastern side of the canal.
Of all living things, the most numerous are insects. Mollusks are the second most numerous.
Depending on the species of starfish, they can have as few as three legs or as many as fifty. The starfish range in size from less than 4 inches to over 3 feet.
Each King in a deck of cards represents a King from history. Spades-King David, Clubs-Alexander the Great,Hearts-Charlemagne and Diamonds-Julius Ceasar.
A manned rocket can travel to the moon in less time than it takes a stagecoch to travel the length of England.
Lightening kills more people in the United States than any other natural disaster, an average of 400 dead and 1,000 injured yearly.
The whale Shark, the largest fish in the sea at up to 70 feet and weighing as much as 70 tons, lives entirely off small creatures like plankton.
On the back of a $5 bill all fifty states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial.
The most common cause of death for cowboys of the American west, from the 1850s to the 1890s, was being dragged by a horse while caught in the stirrups.
A Mosquito gorged on blood can fly carrying a load twice it's weight.
X-ray fish, native to South and Central American rivers, is so transparent that it's swim bladder and most of it's skeleton can be seen.
So that they could be picked out quickly, slaves under the last Emperors of China (the Manchus, 1644-1912) wore pigtails.
The Marquis de Lafayette, who fought with the forces of George Washington during the Revolutionary War, had the same first name as his wife-Marie.
The first woman governor in the history of the United States was Mrs. Nellie Taylor Ross, elected governor of Wyoming in 1925.
The European flat oyster can change it's sex several times depending on the temperature of the water it lives in.
Martin Van Buren was the first American born President. It was almost 50 years after our independence before someone other than an Engish born person would become President.
The phrase "What a guy!"is a form of derision in England and a sign of praise in the UNited States.
Coffee is the worlds second largest item of international commerce, petroleum is first.
There are over 90,000 known species of flies.
The oceans of the world are so vast and deep that if the earth had a perfectly flat surface, it would be covered in seawater to a depth of 8,000 feet.
Beethoven was half deaf most of his life. He was completely deaf when he created his greatest work, the Ninth Symphony.
