- Blue whale tongues can weigh 8,000 pounds, or as much as an elephant, and their hearts weigh close to a ton.
- The Arctic Ocean is the smallest in the world.
- The most popular snack food is potato chips.
- There is a 50% chance that in a group of 23 people, two will share the same birthday. In a group of 367 people, it is a 100% chance. But only 70 people are required for a 99.9% chance.
- Volleyball was invented in 1895.
- If you doubled one penny every day for 30 days, you would have $5,368,709.12.
- The number of times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds, plus 37, will give you the current air temperature.
- Dreamt is the only word that ends in mt.
- German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz lived between 1646 and 1716, developing important calculus concepts and mathematical notation practices.
- The Greek national anthem has 158 verses.
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