Fascinating Facts and Trivia

The Code of Hammurabi decreed that bartenders who watered down beer would be executed.

The first webcam watched a coffee pot. It allowed researchers at Cambridge to monitor the coffee situation without leaving their desks.

Peanuts are not nuts. They grow in the ground, so they are legumes.

All polar bears are left-handed.

The catfish has over 27000 taste buds (more than any other animal)

A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

Many insects can carry 50 times their own body weight. This would be like an adult person lifting two heavy cars full of people.

There are over a million described species of insects. Some people estimate there are actually between 15 and 30 million species.

The Vatican City is the country that drinks the most wine per capita at 74 liters per citizen per year.

There is a town in Canada called “Dildo.”

An average man will ejaculate 18 quarts of semen in his lifetime.

Most insects are beneficial to people because they eat other insects, pollinate crops, are food for other animals, make products we use (like honey and silk) or have medical uses.

Butterflies and insects have their skeletons on the outside of their bodies, called the exoskeleton. This protects the insect and keeps water inside their bodies so they don’t dry out.

Elephants are the only mammals that cannot jump.

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

Starfish have no brains.

The average person will spend six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.

If you were to write out every number (one, two, three, etc.), you wouldn't use the letter "b" until you reached one billion.