The loudest insect in the world is the male cicadas, which are like crickets. When they rub their abdomens, the sound made can be heard from 1300 feet.

In the dry valleys region of Antarctica, it has not rained in 2 million years according to scientists.

Abraham Lincolns mother died when she drank the milk of a cow that grazed on poisonous snakeroot.

AMAZING FACTS