- From 2010 to 2017, every tweet was archived by the Library of Congress.
- The dollar values on the board game Monopoly have been the same since 1935.
- The teeth of a viperfish are so sharp and long that if it closed its mouth with the teeth inside, it would pierce its brain.
- The familiar smell of rain is called petrichor.
- The first James Bond movie was called 'Dr. No'.
- A humming bird flaps its wings up to 90 times a second (5,400 times a minute).
- Mathematical developments increased rapidly around the time of the Italian Renaissance in the 16th century and continued through the scientific revolution of the 17th and 18th centuries, becoming increasingly abstract in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- A platypus can eat its weight in worms every day.
- Moths have white blood.
- The fastest fish in the sea is the swordfish and can reach up to speeds of 108kph (68mph, 59knots).
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