• Americans collectively eat 100 pounds of chocolate every second.
• U.S. President Calvin Coolidge liked to eat breakfast while having his head rubbed with Vaseline.
• When a baby giraffe is born, it falls from a height of six feet, normally without being hurt.
• Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
• The creator of the Nike Swoosh symbol, Carolyn Davidson, was paid only $35 for the design.
• In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than is contained within all the world’s nuclear weapons combined.
• The average person can live for 11 days without water, assuming an average temperature of 60 F.
• Galileo was the first person to suggest using a pendulum to run a clock.
• Most dinosaurs lived to be more than 100 years old.
• Up to the age of six or seven months, a child can breathe and swallow at the same time. Adults can’t do this.
