Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia is the world's largest salt flat, at over 4,000 square miles. Despite being covered in a salt crust several meters thick, it's also a popular breeding spot for flamingos.
Elephants have over 100,000 muscles in their trunk.
The “Windy City” name has nothing to do with Chicago weather. Chicago’s nickname was coined by 19th-century journalists who were referring to the fact that its residents were “windbags” and “full of hot air.”
Cap’n Crunch’s full name is Horatio Magellan Crunch. He’s also been called out for only having the bars of a Navy commander, but the so-called cap’n held his ground on Twitter, arguing that captaining the S. S. Guppy with his crew “makes an official Cap’n in any book!”.
According to the record holder for tallest waffle stack, Guinness World Records has a 40-page document defining what a waffle is.
Vatican City is the only nation in the world that can lock its own gate at night.
A female rabbit is called a doe and a male rabbit is called a buck, just like with deer.
To celebrate New Year's Eve in Atlanta, a giant peach is dropped down a 138-foot tower.
A group of tigers is called an 'ambush' or a 'streak.'
Nobel Prize winner Niels Bohr was given a perpetual supply of beer piped into his house.
The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
Scientists estimate that more than a million earthworms could live in a single acre of fertile ground.