Earth has traveled more than 5,000 miles in the past 5 minutes.

A sneeze travels about 100 miles per hour.

A U.S. dollar bill can be folded approximately 4,000 times in the same place before it will tear.

Bolts of lightning can shoot out of an erupting volcano.

A coyote can hear a mouse moving underneath a foot of snow

The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old

One in every five adults believe that aliens are hiding in our planet disguised as humans.

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

Southern sea otters have flaps of skin under their forelegs that act as pockets. When diving, they use these pouches to store rocks and food.

There are more lifeforms living on your skin than there are people on the planet.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

The largest recorded snowflake was in Keogh, MT during year 1887, and was 15 inches wide.

Before the current era of commercial skyscrapers, there was an era where the tallest buildings were Christian churches and cathedrals (c. 1250–1901).

An airplane's Black Box is actually orange so it can easily be found in case of an accident.

1 in 6 U.S. veterinarians might have contemplated suicide since graduation. That's 3 times the U.S. national mean.

Books may not enter or leave Tajikistan without written permission from the Ministry of Culture.

In Japanese, "e" can be translated to "image," and "moji" can be translated to "character", so "emoji" is literally "image character."

At least 15 studies have now shown that vitamin C does not treat the common cold.

90% of all the rice in the world is consumed in Asia.

Science knows more about coffee, wine and tomatoes than it does about breast milk.