- The grapefruit gets its name from the way it grows in clusters like grapes on a vine.
- Employees are more likely to book holidays off work on a Monday that any other week day.
- Sound travels 4.3 times faster through water than in air.
- Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys.
- The first taxi service began in New York in 1907.
- Platypuses are venomous.
- The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.
- There are over 225,000 trees in New York's Central Park.
- 55% of all movies are rated R.
- Astronauts can't burp in space.
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