- Flushable toilets were in use in ancient Rome.
- The Nobel Peace Prize is named for Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.
- The strike note of the Liberty Bell is E flat.
- Sound travels 4.3 times faster through water than in air.
- The vocabulary of the average person is between 5,000 to 6,000 words.
- There is 200 times more gold in the world's oceans than has been mined.
- Children grow faster during springtime.
- You blink over 4 million times a year.
- Chameleons can move their eyes in two directions at the same time.
- A bolt of lightning can reach temperatures hotter than the sun.
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