1. Female cockroaches can reproduce on their own if no male cockroaches are around.
2. Mosquitoes are the deadliest animal on the planet. They kill around one million people per year by spreading malaria and other diseases.
3. The shortest war in history was the U.K. versus Zanzibar on August 27th, 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.
4. If you unraveled all of the DNA in your body, it would span 34 billion miles, reaching to Pluto
5. When a massive star explodes, its scrunched up core forms something called a neutron star. Neutron stars are so dense that just a teaspoon of their material would weigh more than Mt. Everest.