- House cats have 18 claws.
- Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music.
- The 1st full length animated film was released by Disney Studios in 1937 (it was Snow White and the seven dwarfs).
- The oldest exposed surface on Earth is New Zealand's south island.
- The grapefruit gets its name from the way it grows in clusters like grapes on a vine.
- The word 'geometry' comes from the Greek words 'geo', meaning earth, and 'metria', meaning measure.
- The word 'underground is the only word that begins and ends with the letters 'und'.
- A blue whale can weigh as much as 30 elephants and as long as 3 large tour buses.
- Plants, like humans, can run a fever if they are sick.
- If you filled a matchbox with gold it could be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
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