- When you were born, for a tiny amount of time, you were the youngest person on planet Earth.
- Every year, millions of trees grow because squirrels forget where they buried their acorns.
- Norway once knighted a penguin.
- The voices of Mickey and Minnie Mouse ended up getting married in real life.
- Every single year, the Netherlands sends 20,000 tulips to Canada to thank them for their help in World War 2.
- Smallpox is completely extinct as a disease.
- Scotland’s national animal is the Unicorn.
- An octopus likes shiny objects, and will often start a collection of them.
- The gender neutral term for a niece or nephew is “nibling.”
- “Old book smell” has been identified as a mix of grass and vanilla.
- Volvo invented the life-saving three-point seatbelt, and instead of capitalizing on it, gave the patent away so that other car manufacturers could use it to save lives.
- An average cloud weighs around 1.1 million pounds.
- When rabbits get really excited and start to jump around, it’s called a binky.