- A Boeing 747 airliner holds 216,847 litres (57,285 gallons) of fuel.
- Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
- Kickball is referred to as u201csoccer-baseballu201d in some parts of Canada.
- The Nobel Peace Prize is named for Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.
- Siderodromophobia is the fear of trains.
- The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
- There is 200 times more gold in the world's oceans than has been mined.
- There is a museum of strawberries in Belgium.
- There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
- The world's first roller coaster opened in 1884 at Coney Island New York.
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