Camel's milk does not curdle.
A jumbo jet uses 4,000 gallons of fuel to take off.
Some ribbon worms will eat themselves if they can't find any food.
It was once against the law to slam your car door in a city in Switzerland.
Thomas Edison, lightbulb inventor, was afraid of the dark.
Penguins can jump as high as 6 feet in the air.
India has the most number of mosques. It has 300,000 mosques which is much more than the Muslim world.
Almost a quarter of the land area of Los Angeles is taken up by automobiles.
India was one of the richest countries in the world before the British invasion in 17th century.
The colour of a chilli is no indication of its spiciness, but size usually is - the smaller the pepper, the hotter it is.
In Europe pointed toes on shoes were fashionable from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries.
The first power plant owned by Thomas Edison opened in New York City in 1882.
Venus and Uranus is the planet in our solar system that rotates against the clock. So the sun rises from the west on the planet.
Corn makes up about 8% of the weight in a box of corn flakes.
In the Middle East heels were added to shoes to lift the foot from the burning sand.
The company that built the Titanic was White Star Line and was owned by J.P. Morgan.
Benjamin Franklin didn't discover electricity but he did prove that lightning is a form of electrical energy.
Carrots were originally purple in colour, changing in the 17th Century to orange with newer varieties.
Pigs can not sweat because they have no sweat glands. They were smeared with mud to cool the skin.
In Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries heels on shoes were always colored red.
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