- Mount Everest is 8.9km (5.5 miles) high.
- Tigers have striped skin as well as fur.
- The first taxi service began in New York in 1907.
- There are over 40,000 muscles tendons in an elephant's trunk.
- A spider's silk is stronger than steel.
- Gold never erodes.
- A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
- Americans consume over 10 billion bowls of soup each year.
- Silly String was originally designed to be a spray on cast for broken bones.
- The praying mantis can turn its head 180 degrees.
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