On the Road

On the road for Memorial Day! No post on Monday, and just a few random interesting factoids for amusement today.

Random factoids:

• Tomato plant stems and leaves are toxic to most pets.
• Cocoa trees can live to be 200 years old, but they only produce chocolate-usable cocoa beans for 25 years.
• Butter was the first food product allowed by law to have artificial coloring.
• Rain has never been recorded in some parts of the Atacama Desert in Chile.
• The first animal to orbit the moon was the tortoise.
• Baby porcupines are called porcupettes. 
• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
• A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
• Babies are born without knee caps.

Learn something new? Your turn: add one random factoid to the list! Leave your answers in the comments.