Termites are  affected by music. They will eat your house twice as fast if you play loud  music.  An adult hippo can  bite a 12-foot (3.6 m) adult male crocodile in half.  Tuna swim at a  steady rate of 9 miles (14 km) per hour until
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  The oldest living  thing in existence is not a giant redwood, but a bristlecone pine in the  White Mountains of California, dated to be aged 4,600 years old.  The  plant life in the oceans make up about 85 percent of all the greenery on the  Earth. Â
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  Cocaine was the first local anesthetic; being  used as such from about 1884 onwards.  The rosy periwinkle plant, found in Madagascar, is  used to cure leukemia.  Banana oil never saw a banana; it’s made from  petroleum.  From the 1500’s to the 1700’s, tobacco was  prescribed
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  The word “set” has the highest number of  separate definitions in the English Language (192 definitions according to  the Oxford English Dictionary.)  The world’s largest alphabet is Cambodian, with 74  letters.  Cocaine was the first local anesthetic; being used as  such from about 1884 onwards. Â
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  The biggest dog  on record was an Old English Mastiff that weighed 343 pounds. He was 8 feet,  3 inches from nose to tail.  February 1865 is  the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.  San Francisco cable cars are the only
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  It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.  The biggest flag ever made is an  American flag measuring 78 meters by 154 meters, and weighs 1.38 tonnes.  Any month that  has a Friday the 13th also has a Wednesday the 25th.  As you age, your
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  The most used letter in the  English alphabet is ‘E’, and ‘Q’ is the least used!  More money is spent on gardening  than on any other hobby!  Every year, kids in North America spend close to half a billion dollars on  chewing gum!  Every second,
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  It’s  against the law to have a pet in Iceland.  In  the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.  Tuna swim at a steady rate of  9 miles (14 km) per hour until they die and they never stop moving. Some  Scientists estimate that a
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  Americans…   21% of them don’t make their  bed daily. 5% of them never do.  Men do 29% of laundry each  week. Only 7% of women trust their husbands to do it correctly.  13% of them admit to  occasionally doing their offspring’s homework.  91% of
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  A  kangaroo can’t jump unless it’s tail is on the ground.  The  muzzle of a lion is like a fingerprint – no two lions have the same pattern  of whiskers.  A  full-grown bear can run as fast as a horse  A male emperor moth can
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