1.  Are zebras white with black stripes or black with white stripes?  According to science, their skin AND their default hair color is BLACK . . . and the white stripes are created by the lack of production of melanin in those striped areas.

2.  Wolves howl together in harmony to make it sound like there are more of them together than there actually are.

3.  About 8.6 million lightning bolts strike the Earth every single day.

4.  There’s only one person who’s had a losing record as the University of Kansas men’s basketball coach.  And it is . . . James Naismith, the guy who invented basketball.  His record as their coach was 55-60 from 1898 to 1907.

Here is today’s bonus fact:

5.  The longest river in Antarctica is the Onyx River, which is 20 miles long.  Every other continent’s longest river is at least 100 times longer.

(Live Science / Wiki / Weather.gov / Wiki / Wiki)