Cells are controlled by a central part called the nucleus.

The Portugese Man O' War is not a true jellyfish. It is actually a colony of jellyfishlike creatures.

Sea stars are able to push their stomachs out of their bodies.

An indian named Sequoyah invented the Cherokee syllabary (a sort of alphabet based on syllables rather than single letters.)

The nautilus has up to 94 tentacles, but none of them have suction cups.

Roger WIlliams was the founder of Rhode Island.

Despite the millipede's name, which means "thousand-footed," the most legs a millipede may have is less than 750.

The Hopewell Indians buried their dead in large burial mounds, sometimes putting a thousand or more in one mound.

Wampum, which is beads made from the shell of the quahog (a type of shellfish), was used by Native Americans as money, gifts, and tokens of friendship.

The Atlantic Ocean is the saltiest ocean in the world.