Did you know?

An ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

Polar bears are left-handed.

Approximately 1/3 of the earth's land surface is desert.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds, making it the animal with the most taste buds.

2,000 pounds of space dust and other space debris fall on the earth every day.

At latitude 60 degrees south you can sail all the way around the world.

A flea can jump 350 times its body length.

Cat urine glows under a black light.

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

A black widow spider kills its mate when they are done.

A gorilla's penis is 1/3 the length of that of a humans.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

99 percent of the solar system mass is concentrated in the sun.

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

A quarter of Russia is covered by forest.

A sizable oak tree, during the typical growing season, gives off 28,000 gallons of moisture.

American astronauts must be under 6 feet.

Angel Falls in Venezuela is the world's highest waterfall at 3,212 feet.

Antarctica has no native population.

Antarctica is the only continent that does not have land areas below sea level.

Australia is the richest source of mineral sands in the world.