- Banana plants can grow as high as 6 meters (20 feet) tall.
- Mountain lions can whistle.
- On your birthday you share it with 9 million others.
- The Earth weighs 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
- Frogs don't usually swallow water (they absorb most of the moisture they need through their skin).
- The average bed contains over 6 billion dust mites.
- More people are killed from bees than snakes.
- Gunpowder is formed by mixing charcoal, saltpetre and sulphur.
- The Amazon rainforest produces half the world's oxygen supply.
- Coca Cola launched its 3rd product Sprite in 1961.
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