Charles Darwin's personal pet tortoise didn't die until recently.
The average person will spend six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.
A bolt of lightning contains enough energy to toast 100,000 slices of bread.
President Lyndon B. Johnson owned a water-surfing car.
Cherophobia is the word for the irrational fear of being happy.
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from two miles away.
Nearly 30,000 rubber ducks were lost a sea in 1992 and are still being discovered today.
There's a Manhattan-specific ant.
The inventor of the frisbee was turned into a frisbee after he died.
There's a bridge exclusively for squirrels.
Subway footlongs aren't always a foot long.