- In South Korea, it is against the rules for a professional baseball player to wear cabbage leaves inside of his hat.
- You can smell a skunk 1.6km (1 mile) away.
- When lightning strikes it can reach up to 30,000 degrees celsius (54,000 degrees fahrenheit).
- The average age of a polar bear in the wild is 17 years.
- New born babies have 350 bones (by age 5 the amount of bones merges to 206).
- Spain's largest source of income is from tourism.
- The yo-yo was originally used as a weapon for hunting the in the Philippines.
- The world's first roller coaster opened in 1884 at Coney Island New York.
- Your brain uses 10 watts of energy to think and does not feel pain.
- The original design of Monopoly was circular.
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