The average person eats 60,000 pounds of food in a lifetime, the equivalent in weight of six elephants.

The Olympics were such an important part of ancient Greek culture that the first year in the Greek calendar coincided with the first-known Olympic games held in 776 B.C

With 2.3 million Americans in prison, the United States - a country with 5 percent of the world's population - has 25 percent of the world's prisoners in its jails.

Getting hit by lightning might not be as bad as it sounds. Only 20 percent of lightning-related injuries are fatal.

In total volume of food, the blue whale eats the equivalent of about 8,000 hamburgers each day.

Nicotine - an alkaloid in tobacco leaves - was named for (and by) Jacques Nicot, a French diplomat who popularized the cultivation of tobacco in France. Nicot was also responsible for compiling the first French dictionary to describe the alkaloid.

Classic Sanskrit writings number eight methods of cooking: thalanam (drying), kvathanam (par-boiling), pachanam (cooking with water), svedanam (steaming), apakva (frying), bharjanam (dry-roasting), thanduram (grilling) and putapaka (baking).

While a theory is a scientific model that covers a set of natural occurrences, a theorem is a mathematical deduction built on basic assumptions.