- The makers of the board game Monopoly print over 50 billion dollars worth of Monopoly money every year.
- Penguins are only found in the southern hemisphere primarily in Antarctica (excluding zoos above the equator).
- England's first great industry was wool.
- Peru has more pyramids than Egypt.
- Akousticophobia is the fear of noises.
- Heavier, not bigger, lemons produce more juice.
- What comes after a million, billion and trillion? A quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion and undecillion.
- 80% of the world's rose species come from Asia.
- Are you terrified that a duck is watching you? Some people are. That is anatidaephobia.
- Each red blood cell lives an average of 4 months and travels between the lungs and other tissue 75,000 times before returning to bone marrow to die.
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