• Every drop of seawater contains approximately 1 billion gold atoms.
  

• A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks of age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds.
  

• During World War II, IBM built the computers the Nazis used to manage their death/concentration camps.
  

• The total combined weight of the worlds ant population is heavier than the weight of the human population.
  

• Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
  

• The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows. It was the fashion in Renaissance Florence to shave them off.
  

• Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning
  

• Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
  

• Happy Birthday (the song) is copyrighted.
  

• The number of people alive on earth right now is higher than the number of all the people that have died. Ever.
  

• Scientists have determined that fungi are more closely related to human beings and animals than to other plants.
  

• A 1,200-pound horse eats about seven times it's own weight each year.
  

• A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.
  

• A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.
  

• A chameleon can move its eyes in two directions at the same time. And it's tongue is twice the length of its body.
  

• A chimpanzee can learn to recognize itself in a mirror, but monkeys can't.
  

• A rat can last longer without water than a camel can.
  

• A single little brown bat can catch 1,200 mosquitoes-sized insects in just one hour.
  

• A Cornish game hen is really a young chicken, usually 5 to 6 weeks of age, that weighs no more than 2 pounds.
  

• A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
  

• An adult lion's roar can be heard up to five miles away, and warns off intruders or reunites scattered members of the pride.
  

• An electric eel can produce a shock of up to 650 volts.
  

• An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
  

• An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
  

• Beaver teeth are so sharp that Native Americans once used them as knife blades.
  

• Dolphins sleep at night just below the surface of the water. They frequently rise to the surface for air.
  

• Domesticated turkeys (farm raised) cannot fly. Wild turkeys can fly for short distances at up to 55 miles per hour. Wild turkeys are also fast on the ground, running at speeds of up to 25 miles per hour.
  

• Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.