- The Statue of Liberty weighs over 225 tons.
- The first paperback book was printed by Penguin Publishing in 1935.
- The yo-yo was originally used as a weapon for hunting the in the Philippines.
- The world's first roller coaster opened in 1884 at Coney Island New York.
- The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand.
- A crocodile can't move its tongue.
- The symbols used for addition (+) and subtraction (-) have been around for thousands of years but it wasn't until the 16th century that most mathematical symbols were invented. Before this time math equations were written in words, making it very time consuming.
- An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
- Scotland has the most redheads.
- The human body creates 2,500,000 new red blood cells every second.
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