- Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music.
- Maine produces more wild blueberries than anywhere else in the world.
- A King Cobra is the biggest of all poisonous snakes and can grow to over 4 metres (13 feet) long.
- Originally in 1886 Coca Cola was introduced as an 'intellectual beverage' to boost brain power.
- You can buy square watermelons in Japan (developed to stack better in supermarkets).
- Orange Fanta is the 3rd largest selling soft drink in the world.
- The odds of being struck by lightning are one in 15,300 in your lifetime.
- The world's knowledge is growing so fast that 90% of what we will know in 50 years time will be discovered in those 50 years.
- England's Stonehenge is over 5,000 years old.
- Dolphins sleep with one eye open.
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