- Queen termites can live up to 50 years.
- M&M's chocolate stands for the initials for its inventors Mars and Murrie.
- Zoophobia is the fear of animals.
- India is home to over 200 million cows.
- The fastest gust of wind ever recorded on Earth was 253 miles per hour.
- Raindrops are not tear shaped (they more resemble the shape of a tiny hamburger bun).
- The Internet was originally called ARPANet (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) designed by the US department of defense.
- If you doubled one penny every day for 30 days, you would have $5,368,709.12.
- Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth.
- You can buy square watermelons in Japan (developed to stack better in supermarkets).
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