- The average hen lays 228 eggs a year.
- Dogs can make about 10 sounds, while cats make about 100.
- Finland has the largest number of islands in the world (over 179,550).
- Ostriches have a 14 meter (46 foot) long small intestine.
- The bigger the orange the sweeter sweeter it is.
- 'underground' is the only word that begins and ends with the letters 'und'.
- Some dinosaurs had tails over 13m (45 feet) long.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- Alan Turing was a British mathematician and computer scientist who cracked German ciphers (codes) in the Second World War, contributed to mathematical logic and played an important role in the development of algorithms, artificial intelligence and the modern computer.
- The US flag has 13 stripes (representing the original 13 states).
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