- Dark green lettuce leaves are more nutritious than lighter ones.
- Water can boil and freeze at the same time.
- The total mass of ants on the planet would actually outweigh all of the world’s wild birds and mammals.
- 70% of all Irish barley grown goes towards the production of Guinness beer.
- An elephant's trunk can hold over 5 litres of water.
- Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
- The diameter of Jupiter is 152,800km (88 700 miles).
- It's possible to lead a cow up stairs but not down.
- Venus is the only planet to rotate clockwise.
- The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English alphabet.
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