
Bees can recognize individual human faces.

Mozzarella comes from the Italian word mozza, which means cutting.

Polar bears can swim for days at a time, doing a stroke that resembles the doggy paddle. One bear was recorded as swimming for 9 straight days in the Beaufort Sea.

Giraffe tongues can be 20 inches long. Their dark bluish black color is probably to prevent sunburn.

Goldfish can remeber information for about 3 months.

The word "karate" means "empty hand" in Japanese.
An episode of Peppa Pig was pulled from Australian television for teaching children not to fear spiders.
The official national animal of Scotland is the unicorn.
When Facebook introduced the News Feed in 2006, people freaked out. TIME called it “Gen Y’s first official revolution.”

Sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia is the medical term for brain freeze.
A coffee tree yields about one pound of coffee in a year.

Mosquitoes are the deadliest animal in the world: They kill more people than any other creature, due to the diseases they carry.