If you take the first letter of the Bible, I from in, and the last letter of the Bible, N from amen, you'll get the first word in the Bible; in.

He works in mysterious ways, no? X3

The only vegetable that is never sold canned, frozen, or any other way except fresh, is lettuce.

Of the four classical Western elements – earth, water, air, and fire – there was often added a fifth – ether, also known as spirit. Ether is often described as what would be left if the other four elements are removed from an object. The elemental of ether is the sprite.

The Chinese elements AKA the Chinese Wu-Hsing – earth, water, fire, metal, and wood – are not elements in the same way the Western ones were. The Wu-Hsing are better described as elemental modes of manifestation rather than elemental substances. The names of the five wu-hsing are the same names used by the Chinese to refer to the five visible planets. Wood – Jupiter Fire – Mars Earth – Saturn Metal – Venus Water – Mercury

Source: The Magician's Companion by Bill Whitcomb

The Tardigrade, or water bear, can be found almost anywhere on earth from the highest mountain to the bottom of the ocean and is practically invincible. It can even survive the vacuum of space. True, ya know.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardigrada

The red-giant star Arcturus, the fourth brightest star in the sky, may have formed in a small galaxy long since torn apart and devoured by the Milky Way.

In December of 1989, Ahmed Zewail of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena announced he and his colleagues figured out how to time the previously unmeasurable speed of the breaking of a chemical bond. In September of 1988, he revealed the speed of the reaction was 205 femtoseconds (1 femtosecond is 1 quadrillionth (0.000000000000001) of a second).

The Richter Scale is logarithmic, which means earthquakes can have magnitudes equal to zero or negative numbers. A quake with magnitude -2 would release approximately the same energy as a 22 lb (10 kg) block dropped from a height of 3 feet, 3 inches (1 meter).

February 29 is also known as bissextus. This term comes from the Roman calendar in which most dates are counted backwards from one of a month's three key day (Kalends, Nones, or Ides). During a leap year, February 24, the sixth day before the Kalends (first day) of March was doubled with the second day (our February 25) called dies bissextus. When the leap day later became February 29, the term bissextus was given to it.

More people die each year from being hit on the head by falling coconuts than by shark attacks.

Flotsam and jetsam. Flotsam is floating wreckage. Jetsam is items thrown off ships.

Rack and ruin. Rack is destruction. Ruin is destitution.

Warp and weft. Warp is lengthwise. Weft is crossways.

Port and starboard. Facing forward, port (AKA larboard) is to the left, starboard is to the right. Running lights on the port side are red while those on the starboard side are green. (Mnemonics: "Port wine is red." Think of a letter: "PS" (port-starboard) and "RE" (ruby-emerald).

Someone who fears the number thirteen suffers from triskaidekaphobia. According to a Dr. Donald Dossey, someone who fears Friday the 13th suffers from paraskevidekatriphobia.

When the architects designed the Eiffel Tower to dominate the Paris skyline, they gave it its distinctive arches so it would catch the eye. However, the arches are strictly ornamental. They serve no load-bearing function.

Magellan already had a map to the Straits of Magellan before he set sail for them. He also never circumnavigated the world, having been killed in the Philippines (where, incidentally, as the first Europeans to visit, they found bananas, even though bananas are native to the New World).

The real credit should go to Chinese Admiral Zhou Man, who commanded four massive fleets of Chinese ships in the years 1421 through 1423. The fleet personally commanded by Zhou Man and the fleet commanded by Admiral Hong Bao both traveled through and charted the Straits of Magellan 98 years before Magellan did. Zhou Man's fleet went on to the Philippines, where they transplanted bananas, and eventually on to China, becoming the first to circumnavigate the globe.