Camel-hunting is illegal in Arizona.
Australian earthworms can grow up to ten feet in length.
Only female mosquitoes bite.
The Angel Falls in Venezuela are nearly twenty times taller than the Niagara Falls.
The phrase 'The Three Rs', standing for 'reading, writing and arithmetic', was coined by Sir William Curtis, who was illiterate.
Turtles, as a species, are about 275 million years old.
Judy Garland's original name was the distinctly unglamorous Frances Gumm.
Since the turn of the century, every elected President of America has been taller than his rival for the White House.
A group of toads is called a 'knot'.
Fillings in people's teeth have been known to pick up radio waves.
Queen Victoria never spoke English perfectly. Her mother tongue was German
The smallest trees in the world are the dwarf willows of Greenland. They are about two inches tall.
The lance ceased to be an official battle weapon in the British Army in 1927.
Every day, the streets and parks of London are doused with over one hundred gallons of urine.
There is a worm which lives under the eyelid of the hippopotamus, and feeds off the animals 'tears'.
Over half the men in Corfu are called Spiro.
The only wild camels in the world are to be found in Australia.
Transporting the corpses off the battlefield for proper burial was a major problem for the medieval Crusaders. They solved their problem by taking with them to the Holy Wars huge cauldrons for boiling the bodies. Bones were much lighter and easier to carry.
Two minor earthquakes occur every minute somewhere in the world.
The perilous journey undertaken by the human sperm prior to conception, could be compared to someone swimming in treacle the distance across the Atlantic Ocean.
The average British family uses two miles of toilet paper a year.
An octopus has three hearts.
Half of the world's area of land waters is in Canada.
April Fool's Day is referred to as Boob Day in Spain.
The stripes of a zebra are white, not black.
Rye grass can put out roots measuring hundreds of miles.
On average, elephants sleep for about two hours a day.
Before the Second World War, it was considered a sacrilege even to touch an Emperor of Japan.
John Paul Getty, once the richest man in the world, had a payphone in his huge mansion.
George Washington grew marijuana in his garden.
Chop-suey is not a native Chinese dish. It was invented by Chinese immigrants in California.
The average human brain weighs three pounds.
The Hundred Year's War lasted 116 years.
Albert Einstein was once offered the Presidency of Israel. He refused saying he had no head for problems.
The correct name for a group of crows is a 'murder'.
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