- Giraffes can grow more than 18 feet tall.
- A camel can drink 25 gallons of water in less than three minutes.
- The coins thrown into the Trevi fountain in Italy are collected for charity.
- Birds can sleep with one eye open.
- The most popular snack food is potato chips.
- Chalk is made from tiny plankton fossils.
- The Basenji is a dog that yodels instead of barking.
- The name of the popular search engine 'Google' came from a misspelling of the word 'googol', which is a very large number (the number one followed by one hundred zeros to be exact).
- The moon orbits the Earth every 27.32 days.
- The first paperback book was printed by Penguin Publishing in 1935.
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