- The name of the popular search engine 'Google' came from a misspelling of the word 'googol', which is a very large number (the number one followed by one hundred zeros to be exact).
- The water in the Dead Sea is so salty that its easier to float than sink.
- Fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than a space shuttle.
- Most birds eat twice their body weight each day.
- If you add up all the numbers from 1 to 100 consecutively (1 + 2 + 3...) it totals 5050.
- Elephants are the only mammal that can't jump.
- Venus is the only planet to rotate clockwise.
- 21% of people don't make their bed in the morning.
- It is against the law to put pretzels in bags in Philadelphia.
- 80% of the world's food crops are pollinated by insects.
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