A spider's silk is stronger than steel.
The most powerful electric eel is found in the rivers of Brazil, Columbia, Venezuela, and Peru, and produces a shock of 400-650 volts.
Parrots have 500 pounds per square inch of pressure in their beaks.
No one knows how many people died during the sinking of the Titanic.
The U.S. motto, 'In God We Trust', was not adopted as the national slogan until 1956.
Pollen never deteriorates. It is one of the few natural substances that lasts indefinitely.
The Japanese liquor, Mam, uses venomous snakes as one of its main engredients.
The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
Any space vehicle must move at a rate of 7 miles per second in order to escape the earth's gravitational pull.
The practice of identifying baseball players by number was started by the Yankees in 1929.
