If there are two full moons in the same month, the second one is called a 'blue moon'. |
The U.S. is the largest country named after a person - Amerigo Vespucci. The term America, derived its name from Americus, the Latin version of Vespucci's first name. |
A person who is unable to take a straight shot of liquor, or makes a disgusted face after doing so, is often called a 'paper-belly'. |
The technical term for hairy buttocks is 'daysypgal'. |
The giraffe was once called a 'Camelopard' because people thought it was a cross between a camel and a leopard. |
The only nation whose name begins with an "A", but doesn't end in an 'A' is Afghanistan. |
If you peel a banana from the bottom, you won't have to pick the little stringy things off of it. That's how actually monkeys do it. |
A fungus by the name Pestalotiopis Microspora could probably use use plastic bags as food. Discovered in the Ecuadorian rain forest by a group of Yale student researchers led by Scott Strobel, it's the first fungus species that is able to survive exclusively on polyurethane. |
The hole in a shirt that one puts one's arms through is called an 'Armseye'. |
By raising one's legs slowly and lying on one's back, one can avoid sinking in quicksand. |