Fried cockroach with garlic is used as medicine for the common cold.
The red blood cells make approximately 250,000 round trips of the body before returning to the bone marrow, where they were born, to die.
You can make edible cheese from the milk of 24 different mammals.
Napoleon's favourite type of wood was Knotty Chestnut.
Sixty five per cent of the candy produced in a year is consumed by American adults of 18 years and above.
The longest muscle in the body is the sartorius, from the outside of the hip to the inside of the knee. It rotates the thigh outward and bends the knee.
The flat shape of the catfish, which is very effective hydrodynamically, has set a model for airplane design.
The main library Indiana University sinks over an inch every year.
A dragonfly's eyes contain 30,000 lenses.
The Saltasaurus' stomach has stones, which grind together by muscular action of the stomach to crush the tough plant material.
