- The Sun has a diameter of 1,390,176km (864,000miles).
- Scorpions glow under ultra violet light.
- There are more tigers owned by Americans than in the wild worldwide.
- The first city to mint its own gold coins was Florence, Italy in 1252.
- Less than 20% of shark attacks are fatal.
- If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
- The first taxi service began in New York in 1907.
- Dolphin's can detect underwater sounds from 24 km (15 miles) away.
- The dishwasher was invented in 1889.
- Dark roasted coffee beans contain less caffeine than medium roasted ones (the longer a coffee is roasted the more caffeine is burns off).
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