The New York stock exchange started as a coffee bar.
Bells made of bronze are ideal as they vibrate for a long time after being struck.
Camels can consume up to 130 litres of water (which is around one-third of their body weight) in almost 10 minutes.
An elephant's tooth can weigh as much as 12 pounds.
Ninety per cent of all restaurants fail during their first year of business.
Sharks cannot eat puffer fish, because the puffer fish inflates like a balloon and pokes the shark's mouth with its sharp needles.
The nasal bones are specially structured that the air inhaled can go to the lungs only after circulating several times in the nose and then warming up.
A volcano has enough power to shoot as high as 50 km into the space.
An ant can lift 50 times its own weight, pull 30 times its own weight and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
When an athlete pole-vaults and lands on the ground, every square centimetre of his pelvis is exposed to a pressure of 1,400 kg.
