- Useful life of a modern toilet is 50 years.
- The largest island in the Mediterranean sea is Sicily.
- In the Middle Ages, chicken soup was considered an aphrodisiac.
- The Basenji is a dog that yodels instead of barking.
- Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa (better known as Fibonacci) lived between the years 1170 and 1250 and is best known today for Fibonacci numbers, the number sequence named after him. Fibonacci introduced the number sequence to Western Europe in his book 'Liber Abaci' after they had been described earlier by Indian mathematicians.
- There are 2.5 million times more ants on earth than people (20 quadrillion of them).
- Atychiphobia is the fear of failure.
- African Grey Parrots have vocabularies of over 200 words.
- Women's hearts typically beat faster than men's hearts.
- Dolphins can hear underwater sounds from 24km (15miles) away.
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