Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full moon.

A sneeze zooms out of your mouth at over 600 m.p.h.

There are probably more than a million species of insects on earth.

Half of the world's area of land waters is in Canada.

The world at the moment is in the middle of an ice age.

No word in the English language rhymes with month.

The Neanderthal's brain was bigger than yours is.

Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.

The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.

The average human brain weighs three pounds.

Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.

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.

Every person has a unique tongue print.

Your right lung takes in more air than your left one does.

Human beings have been around for only 0.0002% of the earth's history.

Every time it is hit by a sizeable object, the moon makes a strange, and so far unexplained, ringing noise.

There are 4,000 wax glands in the ear.

On average, we lose between 30 and 60 hairs a day.

The amount of carbon in the human body is enough to fill about nine thousand lead pencils.

Your nose continues to grow throughout your life.

Plants are 90% water.

The avocado pear is the most fattening fruit.

Blue eyes get lighter with age.

Every time you stop forward, you use fifty-four muscles.

Women's hearts beat faster than men's.

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

The hydrochloric acid in the human digestive system is strong enough to dissolve a nail.

The sun's mass decreases by four million tons per second.

We shed out entire skin once every four weeks.

Only humans cry.

Over three quarters of a potato is water.

Dirty snow melts quicker than clean snow.

Your body contains enough iron to make a spike strong enough to hold your weight

Rye grass can put out roots measuring hundreds of miles.

The smallest trees in the world are the dwarf willows of Greenland. They are about two inches tall.

The only wild camels in the world are to be found in Australia.

In 1979 snow fell on the Sahara Desert for the first time in living memory

Saffron is made from the stamen of the crocus.

The banana cannot reproduce itself without the help of man.

A pound of lemons contains more sugar than a pound of strawberries.

There are over three times as many countries north of the equator as there are south of it.

In 1925, the Niagara Falls completely froze over.

Blood is only slightly thicker than water.

An average person laughs about 15 times a day.

The Pacific Ocean fills nearly half the globe.

No rain has ever been recorded in the Atacama desert in Chile.

The Angel Falls in Venezuela are nearly twenty times taller than the Niagara Falls.

The largest muscle in the human body is the buttock muscle.

One of the most effective ways of cleaning your teeth, is to chew on a stick.

You breathe nearly two gallons of air a minute.

Human adults breathe about 23,000 times a day.