- Kangaroos can't walk backwards.
- A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in tall.
- Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa (better known as Fibonacci) lived between the years 1170 and 1250 and is best known today for Fibonacci numbers, the number sequence named after him. Fibonacci introduced the number sequence to Western Europe in his book 'Liber Abaci' after they had been described earlier by Indian mathematicians.
- The US is the world's largest consumer of coffee.
- The average elephant produces 22kg (50 pounds) of dunn each day.
- A banana contains 75% water.
- All insects have 6 legs.
- What comes after a million, billion and trillion? A quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion and undecillion.
- It is against the law to put pretzels in bags in Philadelphia.
- Melissophobia is the fear of bees.
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