- Bottle nosed whales can dive to a depth of 915 metres (3,000feet) in 2 minutes.
- Heat, not sunlight, ripens tomatoes.
- U.S. paper currency isn't made of paper u2013 it's actually a blend of cotton and linen.
- Coffee trees produce its first full crop after 5 years old.
- An octopus has nine brains and three hearts.
- Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today's measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.14).
- Roosters can't crow if they can't fully extend their necks.
- New York was once called New Amsterdam.
- Italy and France produce over 40% of all wine.
- A bolt of lightning can reach roughly 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
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