THE WORLD DRINKS COCA-COLA

About 13,000 Coca-Cola Company beverages are consumed every second of every day.

Mouse lemurs, the smallest of primates, double their weight during Madagascar’s wet season. They store most of the extra fat in their tails.

The Seychelles palm nut tree bares 30- to 40-pound nuts that take six years to ripen. The full-grown nut, up to 3-1/2 feet around, is the world’s largest seed.

The eyelid is only one millimeter deep, making it the thinnest skin on the human body.

Sixteenth-century Dutch humanist Erasmus offered this advice for blowing the nose: “to blow your nose on your hat or clothing is rustic . . . nor is it much more polite to use your hand . . . . It is proper to wipe the nostrils with a handkerchief and to do this while turning away, if more honorable people are present.”

Philadelphia’s Billy Carter, a first-class passenger of the “Titanic,” brought along his 35-horsepower Renault motorcar, packed away in the ship’s hold. Carter also brought 24 polo sticks, 60 shirts and 15 pairs of shoes for the voyage.

The first, solely English dictionary was published in 1604 by schoolteacher Robert Cawdrey. He called the completed work “A Table Alphabeticall.”