*Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was Moon.
*85 per cent of all life on earth is plankton.
*The oldest known vegetable is the pea.
*To see a rainbow you must have your back to the sun.
*Carniverous animals will not eat another animal that has been hit by a lightning strike.
*Iguanas can and do commit suicide.
*An eyelash lives for about 5 months.
*There is cyanide in apple pips.
*The water we drink is 3 billion years old.
*Everything weighs one per cent less at the equator.
*Only two female mammals possess hymens;humans and horses.
*Ants dont sleep.
*Human birth control pills work on gorillas.
*Sheep buried in snowdrifts can survive for up to 2 weeks.
*Strawberries are members of the rose family.
*More redheads are born in Scotland than in any other part of the world.
*Nobody knows where Mozart is buried.
*Eskimos use refrigerators to keep their food from freezing.
*Birmingham(UK) has 22 more miles of canals than Venice.
*If an Amish man has a beard,hes married.
*Mexico once had three presidents in one day.
*The Coca-Cola company is the largest consumer of vanilla in the world.
*Millions of trees are accidentaly planted by squirrels that bury their nuts and then forget where they left them.
*9 out of every 10 living thing lives in the ocean.
*Lipstick contains fish scales.
*Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
*Cows give more milk when they listen to music.
*'Puffs' tissues didnt sell well in Germany because 'Puff' in German means brothel.
*Parsley is the most widely used herb in the world.
*There is 200 times more gold in the world's oceans than has ever been mined.
*The Wright brother's first flight was shorter than the wingspan of a 747.
*The Sanskrit word for 'War' means 'Desire for more cows'.
*Monaco's national orchestra is bigger than it's army.
*About 70 per cent of all living organisms in the world are bacteria.