- An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
- M&M's chocolate stands for the initials for its inventors Mars and Murrie.
- The most common injury in ten pin bowling is a sore thumb.
- A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.
- Police dogs are trained to respond to commands in foreign languages (usually German or Hungarian).
- Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler was probably the most influential mathematician of the 18th century, making discoveries in graph theory and introducing many modern mathematical words and notations among other things.
- 'Babe' was played by over 50 pigs.
- Warthogs can reach speeds of 48km/h (29mph).
- A bowling pin will fall at a tilt of 7.5 degrees.
- The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.
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