• 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.