A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber. A ball of solid steel will bounce higher than one made entirely of glass.

Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than through the air.

There is a city called Rome on every continent except Antarctica.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

It’s against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland.

The elephant is the only mammal that can’t jump!

What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!

Honey is the only food that does not spoil. Honey found in the tombs of Egyptian pharaohs has been tasted by archaeologists and found edible.

You can’t kill yourself by holding your breath

In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child

At a jet plane's speed of 1,000 km (620mi) per hour, the length of the plane becomes one atom shorter than its original length

On average, half of all false teeth have some form of radioactivity.

Plutonium - first weighed on August 20th, 1942, by University of Chicago scientists Glenn Seaborg and his colleagues - was the first man-made element.

Tea is said to have been discovered in 2737 BC by a Chinese emperor when some tea leaves accidentally blew into a pot of boiling water. The tea bag was introduced in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan of New York.

Money notes are not made from paper, they are made mostly from a special blend of cotton and linen. In 1932, when a shortage of cash occurred in Tenino, Washington, USA, notes were made out of wood for

If you keep your eyes open by force when you sneeze, you might pop an eyeball out

Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the cockfighting market is huge: The Philippines has five million roosters used for exactly that