- A day on Venus lasts longer than a year on Venus.
- The most common injury in ten pin bowling is a sore thumb.
- The tentacles of the giant arctic jellyfish can reach 36.6 meters (120 feet).
- The dishwasher was invented in 1889.
- Two of Snapple's founders were window washers in Brooklyn.
- Before 1850 golf balls were made of leather and were stuffed with feathers.
- Sponges hold more cold water than hot.
- The croissant was invented in Austria.
- Wheat is the world's most widely grown plant.
- Greek mathematician Euclid is often referred to as the 'Father of Geometry' for his revolutionary ideas and influential textbook called 'Elements' that he wrote around the year 300 BC.
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