- The word denim comes from 'de Nimes' or from Nimes which is a town in France.
- Earth's sky is purple, our eyes just see it as blue.
- The average life span of a mosquito is 2 weeks.
- The average person swallows 295 times during a meal.
- Tennis was originally played with bare hands.
- A blue whale can weigh as much as 30 elephants and as long as 3 large tour buses.
- Chinese mathematics developed around the 11th century BC and included important concepts related to negative numbers, decimals, algebra and geometry.
- The wheelbarrow is invented in China.
- The word 'almost' is the longest in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
- One acre of peanuts will make about 30,000 peanut butter sandwiches.
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