An episode of Peppa Pig was pulled from Australian television for teaching children not to fear spiders.

A tomato is actually a fruit.

Jane Austen didn't publish her first novel under her real name. Instead, Sense and Sensibility was credited as being written "By a Lady."

The cashew nuts we eat are actually attached to a large cashew apple that is used to make soft drinks in Brazil. Ca-shew on that fact!

The two tiny holes in every BIC pen ensure that the air pressure is the same both inside and outside the pen, which helps the ink flow to the tip.

In 1907, an ad campaign for Kellogg's Corn Flakes offered a free sample of cereal to any woman who would wink at her grocer.

The two tiny holes in every BIC pen ensure that the air pressure is the same both inside and outside the pen, which helps the ink flow to the tip.

Of the 94 naturally occurring elements, 83 are considered  and either  or weakly radioactive. The remaining 11 naturally occurring elements possess  too short for them to have been present at the beginning of the , and are therefore considered transient elements. Of these 11 transient elements, 5 (, , , , and ) are relatively common  of  and . The remaining 6 transient elements (, , , , , and ) occur only rarely, as products of rare decay modes or nuclear reaction processes involving uranium or other heavy elements.

Did you know that gorillas, monkeys, bonobos, and other primates make a new nest to sleep in every night?!

For listings of current chemical symbols, symbols not currently used, and other symbols that may look like chemical symbols, see .

Giraffes don’t just have long necks: They have long tongues! Their tongues are between 18 and 20 inches long.

This whole thing is kind of insane
 

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. The stripes are like fingerprints, and no two tigers have the same pattern.

A narwhal's tusk reveals its past living conditions

Spiders have 8 legs