Shrek the sheep ran away and hid in a cave in New Zealand for 6 years. When finally found, he was clad in an astonishing 27kg of wool, enough to make 20 suits!

There is a law in the state of Iowa that if you are a one-armed piano player, that you must perform for free.

The largest dam built by beavers is over twice as long as the Hoover Dam. The busy beavers have been building it for over 40 years in Northern Canada.

There’s a Lake Baikal in Russia that is a thousand times older than any other lake on Earth. It is also the deepest lake and holds 1/5th of the freshwater on our planet.

In 2011, Australia’s Perth Mint created a gigantic A $1million gold coin. It broke records for both weight and value, weighing over a ton and using gold worth an estimated A$52 million.

The pupils of human eyes are at their largest as an adolescent and then slowly shrink until about the age of 60.

If you put a can of normal Coca-Cola into a pool of water, it would sink. However, if you put a can of Diet Coke into the same pool, it would float.

Graphene aerogel, the world's lightest material, is 7 times lighter than air.