- A blue whale can weigh as much as 30 elephants and as long as 3 large tour buses.
- In 1872 Yellowstone in the US was the world's first national park.
- Plants, like humans, can run a fever if they are sick.
- the word typewriter is the longest word that can be typed using only the top row of a keyboard.
- New born babies have 350 bones (by age 5 the amount of bones merges to 206).
- Your foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.
- Buckingham Palace has over 600 rooms.
- Peru has more pyramids than Egypt.
- The first credit card was a Diner's Club card issued in 1950.
- A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.
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