- 1 billion snails are served in restaurants each year.
- A piece of paper cannot be folded more than 7 times.
- Mathematical developments increased rapidly around the time of the Italian Renaissance in the 16th century and continued through the scientific revolution of the 17th and 18th centuries, becoming increasingly abstract in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Wine is sold in tinted bottles because it spoils when exposed to light.
- The first English dictionary was written in 1755.
- Kangaroos can jump 30 feet.
- You're more likely to be killed by a champagne cork than by a poisonous spider.
- Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18.
- African elephants only have 4 teeth.
- Most dinosaurs lived to be more than 100 years old.
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