A snail can sleep for three years.

Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

Butterflies taste with their feet.

In ancient Egypt, priests plucked every hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

Leonardo da Vinci invented the scissors.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

Michael Jordan has more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump.'

Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

The cruise liner, Queen Elizabeth 2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel it burns.