
Wolverines can smell prey hidden under 20 feet of snow. In Alaska, they've been trained to go on search-and-resuce missions.

Puppies can't open their eyes all the way until they're about 10 days old.

Muskrats have two layers of fur to insulate them while swimming in chilly water. Their tails, though, are covered with scales instead.

Porpoises can reach speeds up to 34 miles per hour.

The first cell phone weighed nearly 2 pounds and sold for $3,995.

In many species, male penguins incubate their eggs alone while the women are away for months, hunting.

Nobel Prize winner Niels Bohr was given a perpetual supply of beer piped into his house.
Grammy Award trophies are made out of a custom metal alloys called "grammium".

Einstein’s brain went missing when he died in 1955 and was lost for 23 years. The doctor who worked on his autopsy stole it and kept in a hidden cider box.

The Dutch painter Rembrandt went completely bankrupt, and had to sell his wife's grave to help pay off his debts.

The largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton ever found was discovered in the Black Hills of South Dakota in 1990. You can visit it at the Field Museum in Chicago.

Monaco could fit 60 times into San Francisco.