Fascinating Facts and Trivia

All dogs have been banned from Antarctica since April 1994.

This ban was made because of concern that dogs might spread diseases to seals.

The brain is our fattiest organ, being composed of nearly 60% fat.

Approximately 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.

Alaska law says that you can’t look at a moose from an airplane.

A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and nobody can figure out why.

A pound of houseflies contains more protein than a pound of beef.

Ginger stimulates the feelings of excitement associated with sex.

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It would only take one hour to drive to space.

If you got into your car, turned on the ignition and drove up to the sky at 60 mph, it would take just one hour to get to outer space, according to astronomer Fred Hoyle. Of course, this is purely a theoretical, but it sure is fun to think about!

A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.

Clouds are not as light and fluffy as they appear.

In fact, researchers have found that a single cloud weighs about 1.1 million pounds.

How do they know? Well, that number is calculated by taking the water density of a cloud and multiplying it by its volume.

Fortunately, the cloud can still "float" at that weight because the air below it is even heavier.