- 45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star.
- Giraffes have the same number of vertebrae as humans: 7.
- A horse's canter is a 3-beat gait. After the third beat all three legs are off the ground.
- England's first great industry was wool.
- A Galapagos tortoise can take up to three weeks to digest a meal.
- A fly's reaction time is 30 milliseconds.
- The first vacuum was so large, it was brought to a house with horses.
- Norway once knighted a penguin.
- A fire will burn faster moving uphill than downhill.
- All of the cobble stones used to line the streets in New York were originally stones found in the hulls of Belgian ships ballast.
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