- Hippopotamus milk is pink.
- Australia was originally called New Holland.
- The blueprints for the Eiffel Tower covered more than 14,000 square feet of drafting paper.
- Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18.
- A flea can jump 350 times its body length.
- Mount Everest is bigger now than the last time it was measured.
- In zero gravity, a candle's flame may appear circular and blue.
- The word racecar can be spelled the same way backwards.
- The supersonic Concorde jet made its first trial flight on January 1st 1969.
- Zoophobia is the fear of animals.
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