Interesting facts
- The average American will eat about 11.9 pounds of cereal per year.
- Owls are one of the only birds who can see the color blue.
- Honeybees have a type of hair on their eyes.
- The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they can be easily confused at a crime scene.
- Fictional/horror writer Stephen King sleeps with a nearby light on to calm his fear of the dark.
- A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why.
- Cats’ urine glows under a black light.
- Shakespeare is quoted 33,150 times in the Oxford English dictionary.
- Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
- A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn’t give her coffee.
About the Contributor
Raina Basso, Editor
This is Raina Basso. She is a senior.