# A robin's egg is blue but if you put it in vinegar for 30 days it turns yellow

# The mercury thermometer was invented by Gabriel mercury

# The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog uses every letter in the English language

# You can write approximately 50000 words with one pencil

# Pinocchio is Italian for 'pine eyes'

# Mel Blanc [the voice of bugs bunny] was allergic to carrots

# African Black-Footed penguins although they cannot fly can swim up to 25 miles per hour which is faster than the Atlantic Bottle nosed dolphin which can attain speed of 18-23mph

# David Atchinson was the president of the United States of America for only a day.

# An African fish called the elephant snout communicates with other fish by emitting an electrical signal.

# Tom Sawyer was the first novel written on a typewriter.

#The parachute was invented by Leonardo da venci in 1515.

#Elizabeth 1 of England suffered fro anthophobia a fear
of roses.

# There are 296 steps that lead to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

# Beethoven dipped his head in cold water before he composed.

# A kangaroo cant jump unless its tail touches the ground.

#All United States presidents have worn glasses; some just don't like to be seen wearing the in public.

# In 1981 a young girl in Britain began sneezing and continued to sneeze for 977 days.

# Theres a butterfly in Africa with enough poison in its body to kill 6 cats.

#The surface speed record on the moon is 10.56 miles per hour.

# There are 1792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.

# The Chinese built a battery that lasted 400 years.

# Chang is the most common last name.

#A jumbo takes 4000 gallons of fuel to take off.

# Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

#Kangaroos need very little water to survive, and can go for months without a drink.

#The slipper-shelled snail starts life as a male and gradually turns into a male as it grows up.

#In 1996, McDonald overtook Coca-cola as the best known brand in the world.

# 40 below is the only temperature common to both Celsius and Fahrenheit scales.

#In Quebec Canada, an old law states that margarine must be a different color from butter.

# The word onion comes from the Latin word Unio which means large pearl..

# Crosswords are said to be the most popular and widespread word game in the world.

#To celebrate the New Year in Tibet, monks create yak-butter sculptures.

# On an average, hens start laying eggs at five and a half months.

# The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth the 11, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

# Armadillos have four babies at a time and they are always the sex.

# Soap operas are so called because they used to advertise soap powder.

# In Tamarack, Idaho, you can't buy onions after dark without a special permit from the sheriff.

# The worlds smallest mammal is the bumble bat of Thailand..

# New York Central park is nearly twice the size of Monaco.

# Over 175 million cubic yards of earth was removed for the creation of the Panama Canal.

# Los Angeles ' full name is El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de Porciuncola. And can be abbreviated to 63 percent of its size L.A.

# There are five million scent receptors located in a human beings nose.

# There are three golf balls sitting on the moon.

#Women on an average live seven years longer than men.

# The reason why tattoos do not vanish even though we shed our skin is because the dye is injected deeper into the dermis part of the skin. It is only the epidermis that we shed.

# The sport of surfing originated in Hawaii.

# Three consecutive strikes in bowling is called a turkey.

# The CN Tower in Toronto, is the tallest freestanding structure in the world with a height of about 553 meters.

# The largest object that was ever found in the Los Angeles sewer system was a motorcycle.

# The largest school in the world is City Montessori School in India it has over 25,000 students in grade levels ranging from kindergarten to college.