Mickey Mouse's original name was Mortimer Mouse.
You could fit 310 thousand ping-pong balls in a Volkswagen Beetle.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying!
In 2008, Norway knighted a penguin, Sir Nils Olav the Second.

The electronic music duo Daft Punk always performed in robot masks or other disguises. The costumes were initially a cure for their shyness.

Octopuses lay 56,000 eggs at a time. The mother spends six months so devoted to protecting the eggs that she doesn’t eat. The babies are the size of a grain of rice when they’re born.

The first Primark store opened in Dublin in June 1969 under the name Penney’s.

Lettuce is a member of the sunflower family.

When Disneyland was opened in 1955, “Tomorrowland” was designed to look like a year in the distant future: 1986.
The state of Virginia was named after Elizabeth I, the "Virgin Queen" of England.

Elephants can’t jump.

Bats can eat up to 1,200 mosquitoes in a hour. They often eat their entire body weight in insects in a single night.