- There are over 100 different viruses that cause the common cold.
- A woodpecker can peck 20 times a second.
- The teeth of a viperfish are so sharp and long that if it closed its mouth with the teeth inside, it would pierce its brain.
- Honey bees kill more people each year than snakes.
- Germany borders 9 other countries.
- Room temperature is defined as between 20 to 25C (68 to 77F).
- One acre of peanuts will make about 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches.
- Each red blood cell lives an average of 4 months and travels between the lungs and other tissue 75,000 times before returning to bone marrow to die.
- Born in 1882, Emmy Noether was a German mathematician who made important contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics, described by Einstein as the most important woman in the history of mathematics.
- Emus can't walk backwards.
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