- Glass balls can bounce higher than rubber ones.
- The largest island in the Mediterranean sea is Sicily.
- A species of moth has the best hearing in the world.
- The longest alphabet has 74 letters.
- The word 'lethologica' describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
- Artificial Christmas trees have outsold real ones every year since 1991.
- The average porcupine has 30,000 spikes.
- New York was once called New Amsterdam.
- In zero gravity, a candle's flame may appear circular and blue.
- In 1642 French mathematician Blaise Pascal invented the mechanical calculator.
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