- What comes after a million, billion and trillion? A quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion and undecillion.
- The Eiffel Tower has 1,792 steps.
- The supersonic Concorde jet made its first trial flight on January 1st 1969.
- Octopuses think with their tentacles.
- All the people on Earth could fit into a 1 km cube.
- The drinking straw was invented in 1886.
- Americans eat 35,000 tons of pasta a year.
- Opposite faces of dice always add up to 7.
- The average person sheds .7kg (1.5 pounds) of skin each year.
- Womens hearts beat faster than mens.
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