- On average 22% of all restaurant meals include potato chips.
- October the 10th is national metric day.
- A giraffe can go longer without water than a camel.
- Whales have the slowest metabolism of all animals.
- The first human-made object to break the sound barrier was a whip.
- The hardest substance in the human body is enamel.
- Born in 1953, British mathematician Andrew Wiles is most famous for proving Fermat's Last Theorem.
- The atomic symbol for iron is Fe (the original name for iron was Ferric).
- That in the 17th century the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places (today to 1.2411 trillion).
- Crocodiles are colour blind.
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