- Air's alchemy symbol is a triangle with a horizontal bar.
- More than 75% of all countries are north of the equator.
- You can tell a turtle's gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt and females hiss.
- The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturdays.
- 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.
- In South Korea, it is against the rules for a professional baseball player to wear cabbage leaves inside of his hat.
- Sound travels 4.3 times faster through water than in air.
- There are over 130 species of owl.
- The Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters.
- The fastest insect is the Australian dragon fly (its top speed is 57 km/h (35mp/h)).
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