- The Colgate toothpaste company started out making starch, soap, and candles.
- Ichthyophobia is the fear of fish.
- Alan Turing was a British mathematician and computer scientist who cracked German ciphers (codes) in the Second World War, contributed to mathematical logic and played an important role in the development of algorithms, artificial intelligence and the modern computer.
- The snow on Venus is metal.
- Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
- There is no rice in rice paper.
- Adults laugh only about 15 to 100 times a day, while preschoolers laugh an average of 300 times a day.
- Cucumbers are 96% water.
- The Basenji is a dog that yodels instead of barking.
- Curly hair follicles are oval, while straight hair follicles are round.
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