- The first sailing boats were built in Egypt.
- At the deepest point in the ocean, the water pressure is equivalent to having about 50 jumbo jets piled on top of you.
- Cheetahs can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h (43mp/h) in 3 seconds.
- Dreamt is the only word that ends in mt.
- Most birds eat twice their body weight each day.
- You might have heard the word 'infinity' before or seen its symbol that looks like the number 8 placed on its side. Infinity means a limitless quantity or something that goes on forever. While it's not really a number like 1, 2 or 3, infinity is often used in math as part of equations and formulas.
- The average bed contains over 6 billion dust mites.
- The only thing that can destroy a diamond is intense heat.
- Don't like mosquitoes? Get a bat. They could eat 3,000 insects a night.
- The first ground vacuum packed coffee was first introduced in 1900.
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