learn something new every day

If the average male never shaved, his beard would be 13 feet long when he died.

White wine isn’t made from green grapes, and red from red grapes, the color of the grape doesn’t have anything to do with it. The skin of the grape is left on to make red wine and removed to make white.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.

Haha.

A female dodo bird laid only one egg a year. (No wonder they went extinct!)

The Earth isn’t a perfect sphere; it’s more like an apple, because it’s flattened out at the poles and bulges out at the Earth’s equator.

The game Chinese Checkers was invented in the US.

George Washington technically wasn’t the first US president. It was John Hanson. Eight presidents actually served before Washington, but George was the first to serve under the Constitution. The rest were under the Articles of Confederation.

Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

The leech has 32 brains.

Koala bears don’t have eyelids.