In the human body there is so much phosphorus you could produce around 750,000 matches.
People who spend the most time in front of television sets are Japanese. They spend on average 9 hours in front of the TV.
Isaac Newton was kicked out of school. He was expelled as a teenager at the request of his mother, who wanted him to become a farmer.
A human and a sloth are the only creatures that normally make love face to face.
Contrary to popular belief, donkeys belong to one of the smartest ungulates. They, for example, use their chin hair to test whether there is current going through a wire fence and if they have to walk thru dangerous grounds, they will only start if their master walks through first.
In the Middle Ages, patients were tended by nuns, who in between themselves called one another sisters. That name was later used for trained nurses.
