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.
Honey does not spoil. You could feasibly eat 3000 year old honey.
Dead people can get goose bumps.
If you were to remove all of the empty space from the atoms that make up every human on earth, the entire world population could fit into an apple.
It would take 1,200,000 mosquitoes, each sucking once, to completely drain the average human of blood.
To know when to mate, a male giraffe will continuously headbutt the female in the bladder until she urinates. The male then tastes the pee and that helps it determine whether the female is ovulating.
When we breathe through our nose, we always inhale more air from one nostril than with the other one — and this changes every 15 minutes.
In 1903 the Wright Brothers flew for the first time. 66 years later, man landed on the Moon in 1969.
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