- In eastern Africa you can buy beer brewed from bananas.
- The Hindu-Arabic numeral system began developing as early as the 1st century with a full system being established around the 9th century, forming the basis of the numerical digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 that we use today.
- The most valuable nutrients of a potato are its skin.
- Australia has the largest sheep population.
- The word utopia u2013 an ideal place u2013 ironically comes from a Greek word meaning u201cno place.u201d.
- Jellyfish don't have brains.
- Fleas can accelerate 50 times faster than a space shuttle.
- In 1900 the average life span in the US was 47.
- The word 'almost' is the longest in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
- The average dog can understand over 150 words.
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