Despite the cold, because snow is comprised of around 90-95% air, it is actually a good insulator.

Some species of moths never develop mouths and so never eat as adults.

If you were to uncoil an orchestral tuba, the metal pipe would stretch 12 feet.

Pound cake is so named because early recipes contained one pound of butter, one pound of eggs, and one pound of sugar.

The number FOUR is the only digit whose name contains the same number of letters that the figure itself represents.

Nutmeg is faintly hallucinogenic…and bananas are faintly radioactive!

Sunday and Monday are named after the Sun and the Moon.

After his death, the ashes of Fred Baur, the inventor of the Pringles can, were partly buried in a Pringles can at his request.