- Tarantula spiders can survive 2 and a half years without food.
- New Zealands first hospital was opened in 1843.
- The safest car color is white.
- It takes around 200 muscles to take a step.
- The bumblebee bat weighs less than a penny.
- Glaciers and ice sheets hold about 69 percent of the world’s freshwater.
- You can start a fire with ice.
- 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 greyhound is the fastest dog and can reach speeds of up to 72kph (45mph).
- Orienteering originated from Sweden.
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