1. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

2. A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

3. The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."

4. On a Canadian two-dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is an American flag.

5. Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".

6. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

7. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

8. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.

9. A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves to death

10. The names of the continents all end with the same letter with which they start. 

11. No president of the United states was an only child.