- The most valuable nutrients of a potato are its skin.
- Each red blood cell lives an average of 4 months and travels between the lungs and other tissue 75,000 times before returning to bone marrow to die.
- There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
- The longest one syllable word in the English language is 'screeched'.
- Rabbits like licorice.
- Employees of the Vatican pay no income tax.
- Greek mathematician Euclid is often referred to as the 'Father of Geometry' for his revolutionary ideas and influential textbook called 'Elements' that he wrote around the year 300 BC.
- Chocolate manufacturers use 40% of the world's almonds.
- The coloured part of your eye is called the iris.
- Antarctica is home to the largest desert in the world.
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