- Norway once knighted a penguin.
- Banana plants are the largest plants without a woody stem (they belong to the same family as lilies, orchids and palms).
- The state of Alabama once financed the construction of a bridge by holding a rooster auction.
- 80% of the world's rose species come from Asia.
- A duck can't walk without bobbing its head.
- Oxygen supply influences the color of a fire's flame.
- The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.
- Reindeer like bananas.
- Bernhard Riemann was an influential German mathematician who contributed to differential geometry and analysis, paving the way for the development of general relativity by Albert Einstein.
- New born babies have 350 bones (by age 5 the amount of bones merges to 206).
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