• A cockroach can live for nine days after its head has been cut off.• The world’s largest amphibian is the giant salamander. It can grow up to five feet in length.• The first coast-to-coast telephone line was established in 1914.• A car traveling 100 mph would take more than 29 million years to reach the nearest star.• In Sweden there is a ski-thru Mcdonalds.• Pinocchio is Italian for “”pine head.””• Since 1313, it is illegal for an Member of Parliament to enter the House of Commons wearing a full suit of armor.• In York, excluding Sundays, it is legal to shoot a Scotsman with a bow and arrow.• Babies are born with 300 bones that eventually fuse to form the 206 bones that adults have.