- Frogs can't swallow with their eyes open.
- An elephants ears are used to regulate body temperature.
- You blink over 4 million times a year.
- A car travelling at 80kph (50mph) uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance.
- The official state gem of Washington is petrified wood.
- Bill Gates began programming computers at the of age 13.
- Alan Turing was a British mathematician and computer scientist who cracked German ciphers (codes) in the Second World War, contributed to mathematical logic and played an important role in the development of algorithms, artificial intelligence and the modern computer.
- There are more tigers owned by Americans than in the wild worldwide.
- The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick' is said to be the toughest tongue twister.
- Greyhounds can reach speeds of up to 67kph (42mph).
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