- Women blink twice as much as men.
- The past tense for the English word 'dare' is 'durst'.
- An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
- The average person sheds .7kg (1.5 pounds) of skin each year.
- Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys.
- Baby koalas are fed poo by their parents after they are born which helps them digest Eucalyptus leaves later in life.
- When water freezes it expans by 9%.
- The primary reason for growing rice in flooded paddies is to drown the weeds surrounding the young seedlings (rice can grow in well drained areas).
- Turnips turn green when sunburnt.
- If you could drive to the sun at a speed of 88.5 km/h (55 mp/h) it would take around 193 years.
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