- Wind moves air from high to low pressure areas.
- Tarantula spiders can survive 2 and a half years without food.
- Due to gravitational effects you weigh is slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
- Bill Gates began programming computers at the of age 13.
- The human eye blinks over 4,200,000 times a year.
- To crack a whip the tip must be travelling faster than the speed of sound.
- Banana plants can grow as high as 6 meters (20 feet) tall.
- The most common injury in ten pin bowling is a sore thumb.
- M&M's chocolate stands for the initials for its inventors Mars and Murrie.
- The most abundant metal in the Earth's crust is aluminum.
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