- Wooly mammoths grew as tall as 14 feet, weighing 10 tons. Mammoths used tusks for protection and to attract mates.
- It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa.
- Ostrich meat is the leanest of all red meats.
- Air's alchemy symbol is a triangle with a horizontal bar.
- Flightless birds, like the penguin, could once fly.
- The typewriter was invented in 1829.
- The 'black box' that houses an airplanes voice recorder is actually orange so it can be more easily detected amid the debris of a plane crash.
- Porcupines float in water.
- 'Babe' was played by over 50 pigs.
- A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber of the same size.
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