- The drinking straw was invented in 1886.
- Trees do not have life expectancies (most can grown indefinitely).
- M&M's chocolate stands for the initials for its inventors Mars and Murrie.
- Every living thing on the Earth contains carbon.
- When your face blushes so does your stomach lining.
- The primary reason for growing rice in flooded paddies is to drown the weeds surrounding the young seedlings (rice can grow in well drained areas).
- Gold never erodes.
- The game of basketball was first played using a soccer ball and two peach baskets.
- Ablutophobia is the fear of bathing.
- New Zealands first hospital was opened in 1843.
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