The name Jessica was created by Shakespeare in the play Merchant of Venice

Cashews grow like this

And pineapples grow like this

Russia has a larger surface area than Pluto

Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia

Hippo milk is pink

The toy Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts

Woody from Toy Story has a full name too — it’s Woody Pride

Oh, and Cookie Monster’s real name is Sid

Carrots were originally purple

The heart of a blue whale is so big, a human can swim through the arteries

Vending machines are twice as likely to kill you than a shark is

France was still executing people with a guillotine when the first Star Wars film came out.

Armadillos nearly always give birth to identical quadruplets

The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland

New York City is further south than Rome, Italy

North Korea and Finland are separated by one country

Mammoths went extinct 1,000 years after the Egyptians finished building the Great Pyramid

There are more fake flamingos in the world than real flamingos

Nintendo was founded as a playing card company back in 1889

The man who voiced Fry on Futurama, Billy West, also voiced Doug on Doug

If you shrunk the sun down to the size of a white blood cell and shrunk the Milky Way Galaxy down using the same scale, it would be the size of the continental United States

Pluto never made a full orbit around the sun from the time it was discovered to when it was declassified as a planet