- Hawaii is the only US state that grows cacao beans which go into the production of chocolate.
- Wooly mammoths grew as tall as 14 feet, weighing 10 tons. Mammoths used tusks for protection and to attract mates.
- The word 'taxi' is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, and Portuguese.
- 45,000 thunderstorms around the world occur every day.
- Snails take the longest naps with some lasting as long as three years.
- In South Korea, a baby is considered 1 year old at birth.
- The name of the popular search engine 'Google' came from a misspelling of the word 'googol', which is a very large number (the number one followed by one hundred zeros to be exact).
- The Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters.
- The air signs are Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius.
- The first city to mint its own gold coins was Florence, Italy in 1252.
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