Interesting Facts about Food

Frozen lobsters can come back to life when they are thawed.

Bananas are actually an herb, not a fruit. In fact it is the world's largest herb.

Tomato is the world's most popular fruit

Honey is the only food that does not spoil.

Table salt is the only commodity that has not increased significantly in price in the last 150 years.

Broccoli is vegetable that is a flower.

One gallon of pure maple syrup weighs about 11 pounds.

Almonds are part of the peach family.

There are no blossoms on the branches of a fig tree, instead it is inside the fruit.

Black pepper is the most popular spice in the world.

Chewing gum when peeling onions will prevent tears in your eyes.

Apple Seeds are poisonous


Strawberry is a fruit with the seeds on the outside of the fruit.

Interesting Facts about Birds and Animals

Rabbits can see behind them without turning their heads.

Kangaroos can not walk backwards.

The female lion does almost all of the hunting.

Skunks can accurately spray their smelly fluid as far as ten feet.

A bird chews with its stomach.

Dalmatians are born without spots.

An elephant has 4 knees.

Giraffe cleans its ears with its tongue.

A hummingbird weighs less than a penny.

Dolphins can swim up to 40 kilometers an hour.

A completely blind chameleon will still take on the colors of its environment.

Interesting Facts about Women

  • In almost every country worldwide, the life expectancy for women is higher than for men
  • International Women’s Day is March 8
  • Women blink twice as many times as men do.
You can start a fire with Ice

Interesting facts about Plants

Bamboo can grow up to 2 inches an hour

Rafflesia Arnoldi is the largest flower in the world and weighs nearly 15 pounds.


A single seed of an orange can have more than one plant growing from it.

Interesting Facts about Insects

Mosquito are attracted to the color blue twice as much as to any other color.

Bees do not have ears.

A housefly can transport germs as far as 15 miles away from the original source of contamination.

Honeybees use sun as a compass to navigate.

Ants don't sleep.

On an avarage a honey bee visits about 75 flowers in one trip.

A butterfly can see the colors red, green, and yellow.

Interesting Facts about Humans

It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation.

Infants spend more time dreaming than adults do.

Finger Nails grow about 3 times faster than toe nails

The palms of your hands and the soles of your feet cannot tan, or grow hair.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Fingernails grow nearly 4 times faster than toenails.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth.


Every person has a unique tongue print

A human being loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day.

Interesting Facts about Earth

The surface area of the Earth is 197,000,000 square miles

Interesting Facts - Misc

Men’s shirts have the buttons on the right, but women’s shirts have the buttons on the left.

Victoria Falls in South Africa is the largest waterfall on earth.

A normal lead pencil can draw a line that is thirty five miles long.

"I am." is the second shortest complete sentence in the English language.

The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

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