- Horses can't vomit.
- There are 31,536,000 seconds in a year.
- The average raindrop takes 2 minutes to hit the ground.
- Archimedes of Syracuse lived around the year 250 BC and among other things, developed a method for determining the volume of objects with irregular shapes.
- Emus can't walk backwards.
- It takes 5 years for an oyster to produce a medium sized pearl.
- The equals sign (=) was invented in 1557 by a Welsh mathematician named Robert Recorde.
- From space the brightest man made place is Las Vegas.
- Americas top selling ice cream flavour is vanilla.
- The 'black box' that houses an airplanes voice recorder is actually orange so it can be more easily detected amid the debris of a plane crash.
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