There are more trees on earth than there are stars in the Milk Way Galaxy. While the Milk Way boasts 100 billion stars, Earth tops that numbers with its 3 trillion trees.
The largest living organism is the honey fungus, a giant mushroom that spans 2.4 miles (underground) across Oregon's Blue Mountains.
Miss Piggy from The Muppets and Yoda of Star Wars were voiced by the same person: actor and puppeteer Frank Oz.
The Polish Army enlisted a bear during World War II. Wojtek the Syrian brown bear eventually gained the rank of Corporal and often drank beer and smoked cigarettes.
In Japan, more paper is used to make manga comic books than to make toilet paper.
From when Pluto was discovered in 1930 to when it was declassified as a planet in 2006, it had not made a full orbit around the sun. In fact, the former planet takes 248 Earth years to complete its orbit.
Kale, collard greens, Chinese broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, brussels sprouts, and broccoli all come from the same plant: brassica oleracea. They are just different breeds, or cultivars.
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
A mantis shrimp can swing its claw so fast it boils the water around it and creates a flash of light.
The Spanish national anthem has no words.
