Fact Selections

You've lived on Planet Earth all your life, but how much do you really know about the ground underneath your feet? You probably have l...

We live on a sphere of extremes and oddities. In fact it's not really a sphere, but it is a wild planet, mottled with deadly volcanoes, ...

The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated. The r...

Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump. Butterflies taste with their feet. A hippo can open its mouth wide enough to fit a 4 foo...

The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year. The smallest bone in the human body is the stapes or stirrup bone located in th...

•A notch in a tree will remain the same distance from the ground as the tree grows. •Banana oil is made from petroleum. •84% of a raw ap...