- The first credit card was a Diner's Club card issued in 1950.
- The hardest substance in the human body is enamel.
- In 75% of American households women manage the money and pay the bills.
- The basic arithmetic operations used in mathematics are addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
- Heavier, not bigger, lemons produce more juice.
- The first US coast to coast aeroplane flight occurred in 1911 and took 49 days.
- An octopus pupil is rectangular.
- Mistletoe is evergreen -even after a tree's leaves have fallen, it stays green.
- A horse's canter is a 3-beat gait. After the third beat all three legs are off the ground.
- Every day 7% of the US eats at McDonalds.
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