- Dark green lettuce leaves are more nutritious than lighter ones.
- You can buy square watermelons in Japan (developed to stack better in supermarkets).
- Cats can jump up to 7 times their tail length.
- Archimedes of Syracuse lived around the year 250 BC and played a large role in the history of geometry including a method for determining the volume of objects with irregular shapes.
- Scissors were most likely invented ancient Egypt.
- American Black bears are not just black but include bears of varying colors including blonde, cinnamon, brown, white and even silver-blue.
- Your big toe only has 2 bones and the rest have 3.
- Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz.
- In the 1800s, Cadbury created the first heart-shaped chocolate box.
- Red blood cells are produced in bone marrow.
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