There are locusts that have an adult life span of only a few weeks or so, after having lived in the ground as grubs for fifteen years.
Green tea has 50 percent more vitamin C than black tea.
Catherine II of Russia kept her wigmaker in an iron cage in her bedroom for more than three years.
When a shrimp is first born, it is male, and it gradually evolves to female as it matures.
In the history of the solar system, 30 billion comets have been lost or destroyed. That amounts to only 30 percent of the estimated number that remain.
The average person takes 8,000 to 10,000 steps a day, according to the American Podiatric Association.
