- ... that Wilmer Tanner (pictured with a tiger trophy), born 1909, described at least fifteen new species or genera?
- ...that the Olive python, Australia's second largest snake, can eat prey as large as a wallaby?
- ... that one of the few cases of poisoning by the Montpellier snake occurred when someone stuck his finger into the snake's mouth?
- ... that twenty-six U.S. states have an official reptile?
- ... that the American minister George Went Hensley taught that Christians should eschew baseball and embrace venomous snakes?