During the filming of 'Apocalypse Now', director Francis Ford Coppola threatened suicide several times and lost 100 pounds.
No one has ever been able to domesticate the African elephant. Only the Indian elephant can be trained by man.
A rat can fall from a five story building without injury.
A marine catfish can taste with any part of its body.
Oak trees are struck by lightning more than any other tree.
Until 1893, lynching was legal in the United States.
Before 1941, fingerprints were not accepted as evidence in court.
In ancient Japan, public contests were held to see who could fart the loudest and longest!
The largest species of kangaroo stands nearly 7 feet tall.
A rodent's teeth never stop growing.
