According to scientific studies, a rat's performance in a maze can be improved by playing music written by Mozart.

Americans eat an average of 18 pounds of fresh apples each year. The most popular variety in the United States is the Red Delicious.

An apple, onion, and potato all have the same taste. The differences in flavor are caused by their smell. To prove this - pinch your nose and take a bite from each. They will all taste sweet.

In South Africa, termites are often roasted and eaten by the handful, like pretzels or popcorn.

Burger KingŪ uses approximately 1/2 million pounds of bacon every month in its restaurants.            

Native Americans never ate turkey because, killing such a timid bird was thought to indicate laziness.

The lunch meat Spam stands for Shoulder Pork and hAM.

Carbonated water, with nothing else in it, can dissolve limestone, talc, and many other low-Moh's hardness minerals. Coincidentally, carbonated water is the main ingredient in soda.

Sloths take two weeks to digest their food.

Sharks and rays are the only animals known to man that don't get cancer.

The porpoise is second to man as the most intelligent animal on the planet.

The duckbill platypus can store as many as six hundred worms in the pouches of its cheeks.

Human birth control pills work on gorillas.

McGwire's record-setting 70 home runs in the 1998 season traveled a total of 29,598 feet, enough to fly over Mount Everest.

Not all Golf  Balls have 360 dimples.

Bulgaria was the only soccer team in the 1994 World Cup in which all 11 players' last names ended with the letters "OV."

The home team must provide the referee with 36 footballs for each National Football League game.

At 101, Larry Lewis ran the 100 yard dash in 17.8 seconds setting a new record for runners 100 years old or older.

Honey is used as a center for golf  balls and in antifreeze mixtures.