- A compass needle does not point directly north.
- Sound travels 10 times faster through granite than air.
- There are over 15,000 different kinds of rice.
- Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
- Spiders have transparent blood.
- A bumble bee flaps its wings at 160 times a second.
- On the average there are 8 peas in a pod.
- A connected bunch of bananas is called a hand and individual bananas are called fingers.
- Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys.
- Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.
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