Duck meat cuts like a steak, but tastes like chicken.

George Romero's first movie, Night of the Living Dead, was originally titled Night of the Flesh Eaters. The title was changed by the movie studio, who didn't tell Romero, so he was never able to get the distributing rights. This is why you'll never see a collection of every Romero movie together, and why you can often find the original NOTLD as a free addition to other things. The rights are public.

On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.

Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English language.

one 75 watt bulb gives more light than three 25 watt bulbs

The honeybee kills more people world-wide than all the poisonous snakes combined.

If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go crazy and sting itself to death.

The velociraptors in the Jurassic Park books and movies are not actual velociraptors. They are listed by Micheal Crichton and Steven Spielberg as the species velociraptor mongoliensis. This dinosaur was actually only about 3 feet tall, with a bill and wings, covered with feathers.

The dinosaurs shown in the movie were actually Deinonychus.

Real raptors looked like this.

The largest species of gar is the alligator gar

Guam and the Mariana islands have one of the highest rates of consumption of Spam in the world.

Charles Darwin's 5 week visit to the galagos islands prompted him to write "On the Origin of Species by Means Of Natural Selection." The islands are home to the world's only sea going lizards as well as the only species of penguin that lives on the equator.

Cleveland became the world's first city to be lighted electrically in 1879

Memphis is the hardwood capital of the world.

Charles Darwin visited the Galapagos Islands, btw.