• A giant squid’s eye is as big as a basketball.

• Barbie’s real name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

• The national anthem of Greece has 158 verses.

• The average person says 5,000 words in one day.

• The dog who played ToTo in the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz got paid $125 per week.

• Jellyfish are 95 per cent water.

• An albatross can sleep while it flies.

• One billion seconds is about 31.7 years.

• One toad can eat 10,000 insects in one summer.

• The only food that never ever spoils is honey.

• Lemons have more sugar than strawberries.

• French author Michel Thaler wrote a 233 page book with no verbs.

• Apocolocynopsis is the fear of being turned into a pumpkin.

• Clinophobia is fear of going to bed.

• Logizomechanophobia is the fear of computers.

• Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.

• Phobophobia is the fear of fear.

• The can opener was invented about 50 years after the can.

• Leonardo daVinci wrote backwards because he was left-handed and did not want to get ink all over his hand.

• The liquid inside a young coconut can be used as a replacement for blood plasma.

• The average life span of a major league baseball is 5-7 pitches.

• Instead of a birthday cake, many children in Russia are given a birthday pie.

• The Wild Turkey is the only bird with a beard.

• A hedgehog’s heart beats 300 times a minute on average.

• Ancient Egyptians slept on pillows made of stone.

• A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.

• Clocks made before 1660 had only one hand - an hour hand.

• No one knows who designed the first American Flag.

• Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

• When you eat too much, your hearing becomes less sharp.

• Apples are more efficient than caffeine in keeping people awake in the morning.

• You are about 1 centimetre taller in the morning than in the evening!

• Bananas aren’t fruit! They are a type of herb.

• Albert Einstien never wore any socks

• A polar bear’s skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually clear.

• The average car produces a pound of pollution every 25 miles!

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

• In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

• Ketchup was sold in the 1830’s as medicine. — Compiled by The Surfer