Interesting and Unusual Facts

A peanut is not a nut or a pea, it's a legume.
A pound of grasshoppers is three times as nutritious as a pound of beef.
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
A shark can detect one part of blood in 100 million parts of water.
A single share of Coca-Cola stock, purchased in 1919, when the company went public, would have been worth $92,500 in 1997.
A teaspoon of neutron star material weighs about 110 million tons.
A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.