- Wine is sold in tinted bottles because it spoils when exposed to light.
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
- The 100 folds in a chef's hat represent the 100 ways to cook an egg.
- Pandas spend 12 hours a day eating bamboo.
- If left in the dark, goldfish may turn a whitish color.
- Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than air.
- Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today's measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.14).
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- 85% of plant life is found in the ocean.
- India is home to over 200 million cows.
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