A female African elephant can be pregnant for almost two years.

Martin Van Buren was the first U.S. born citizen to become president.

One cord of wood can make 7.5 million toothpicks.

It takes 8 minutes for light to travel from the sun to the earth.

A bride in China wears the color red.

A cow can produce 25 gallons of milk per week.

It took 20 years for Noah Webster to compile his first dictionary.

San Francisco's cable cars are the only mobile U.S. National Monument.

There are three words in the English language with two "u's" in consecutive order: vacuum, residuum, and continuum.