- In ancient China, doctors received their fees only if their patients were kept healthy. If their health failed, the doctor sometimes paid the patient.
- One scrambled ostrich egg can feed six people.
- Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
- The honey bee is the only bee that dies after stinging.
- The only mammal that can fly is the bat.
- Maine is the only state in the U.S. which has only one syllable.
- The bee is the only insect that produces food which is eaten by man.
- The great horned owl is the only animal that will eat a skunk.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is the only American to have a bust at Westminster Abbey in London.
- The kiwi is the only bird that has nostrils at the end of its bill.
- For unknown reasons, the oak tree is struck more than any other by lightning.
- Ray Charles dropped his last name, Robinson, in order to avoid confusion with boxing great Sugar Ray Robinson (whose real name was Walker Smith).
- The roller coaster was invented in Russia in the 17th century.
- A peacock is a male. The female is called a peahen.
- The man who created Wonder Woman was William Moulton Marston, a psychologist who also invented the polygraph.
- A flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.
- African elephants stay on their feet for 30 or 40 years.
- Robert E. Lee's shoe size was 4½.
- After Wyatt Earp retired as marshal of Tombstone, Arizona, he moved to San Fransisco and became a boxing referee.
- In an average lifetime, the human body produces more than 6200 gallons of saliva.
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