- Ocean algae produces about 75 percent of the world's oxygen.
- The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that has 3 syllables (all others have 1).
- The movie Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make with $5 million going towards actor's salaries.
- Worker ants may live for 7 years and the queen up to 15.
- Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras lived around the year 500 BC and is known for his Pythagorean theorem relating to the three sides of a right angle triangle: a^2 + b^2 = c^2.
- The human brain takes up 2% of human body weight but uses 20% of its energy.
- The Basenji is a dog that yodels instead of barking.
- Greeks constructed aesthetically pleasing buildings and artworks based on the golden ratio of approximately 1.618.
- Hawaii is the only U.S. state never to report a temperature of zero.
- Snakes can't bite in rivers or swamps (they would drown otherwise).
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