0.85 liters of blood passes through the human brain every minute.
Every year swallows fly 38.000 kilometers from the northern to the southern hemisphere and back.
Asian elephants have the longest gestation period of all mammals, it lasts 608 days.
The Subjects of Louis IX the King of France were branded with a hot iron as a sign of loyalty.
A duck’s heart beats twice as slower when it dives.
The weight of a diamond is measured in carats, and one carat is 0.2 grams. The heaviest diamond that has ever been found to this date is weighed 621 grams or 3105 carats.
