• Cats use a litter box because of primordial instincts to hide their scents from predators.
• The world record for a cat surviving a fall is 43 stories.
• Babies will cry without shedding tears until they are several weeks old.
• Jerry Springer was born in the London underground tube system.
• The University of Oxford in London (est. 1096 AD) predates the establishment of the Mayan culture (est. circa 1428).
• “Jazz” is the hardest word to guess in the game of Hangman.
• The antlers of a moose are so sensitive they can detect a fly landing on them.
• The Canadian province of Alberta has no rats, the largest inhabited region of the planet that is officially rat-free. Pet rats are not allowed.
• The human body consists of 65% hydrogen atoms; 24% oxygen atoms; 10% carbon atoms; and 1% other atoms.
• Thomas Edison proposed to his wife using Morse code, which he had taught her.
• Tokyo is the most populous city in the world with 38 million people.
• The only times the Olympics have been cancelled have been because of war (1916, 1940, 1944) and Covid (2020).
• Chihuahuas have the biggest brain in the canine world, relative to their body size.
• Before 1912, tires were white or beige. They only turned black when carbon was added to improve their strength and durability.
• The original ampersand sign “&” was formed from the letters “E” and “T” because “et” is the Latin word meaning “and.” Its name is a contraction of “and per se and.”
• When the Pentagon first opened in 1943, it was the first non-segregated building in the state of Virginia. President Roosevelt insisted that no federal buildings would be segregated.
• The tip of the finger can feel items as thin as the width of a hair.
• In 2002, a barber who cut Neil Armstrong’s hair sold the clippings to a collector for $3,000. When Neil Armstrong found out, he insisted the trimmings be returned and that the barber make a $3,000 donation to a charity.
• It’s estimated that 85% of the world’s oxygen is made by phytoplankton in the oceans.
• When you lose weight, you don’t get rid of fat cells; it’s just that the fat cells shrink.
• Erno Rubik invented the Rubik’s cube. It took him nearly a month to solve his first one. Today the record is 3.47 seconds.
• There are over 60,000 species of tree on earth. Half exist only in a single country.
• Not only can a starfish regenerate a lost limb, but a limb can regenerate the entire starfish.
• The giraffe has the same number of neck vertebrae as humans.
• Every human has a tongue print as unique as a fingerprint. Dogs have a unique nose print.
• Every lamppost in Central Park, New York City, has an ID tag attached that tell you the nearest street names and numbers.
• Among the mammals, humans and other primates are the only ones that cannot see ultraviolet light.
• 360 million years ago, there were species of fungi that grew 24 feet (7 m) tall.
• The opposite of “déjà vu” is “déjà reve” which is the feeling that you’ve already experienced something in a dream.