Jonathan the tortoise is a giant tortoise that lives on the island of St. Helena in the South Pacific Ocean that’s believed to have been born in 1832 and is still alive to this day.

There is a company that will (for $14,000) take your ashes and compress them into a synthetic diamond to be set in jewelry for a loved one.

The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately fifty thousand English words. More than two billion pencils are manufactured each year in the United States. If these were laid end to end they would circle the world nine times.

There are one million ants for every human in the world.

Owen, a baby hippo from Kenya, was swept away from his mother during a tsunami. He then mistook a 130-year-old tortoise for another hippo and the two actually became best friends.

In 1978, Soviet geologists found a family of six that survived in the middle of Serbia who hadn’t seen another human since 1936.

In 1888, a pigeon keeper and a beekeeper challenged each other’s creatures to a 3.5-mile organized race in Germany. The bee won by twenty-five seconds.

On July 5, 1996, the first mammal was successfully cloned. Dolly the sheep was cloned from an adult cell at the Roslin Institute in Scotland. She was named after Dolly Parton because she was cloned from a mammary gland cell.