- Elevenses is a break for light refreshments taken at 11AM in England.
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- Commercial airplanes maintain a cabin pressure of about 6,400 feet (just over 1 mile) above sea level.
- There are more skin cancer cases caused by tanning beds than there are lung cancer cases caused by smoking.
- In eastern Africa you can buy beer brewed from bananas.
- If you filled a matchbox with gold it could be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
- Forty percent of twins invent their own language.
- England's first great industry was wool.
- It is illegal to run out of gas in Youngstown, Ohio.
- Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras lived around the year 500 BC and is known for his Pythagorean theorem relating to the three sides of a right angle triangle: a^2 + b^2 = c^2.
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