- Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.
- Honey bees kill more people each year than snakes.
- The smallest bones in the human body are found in your ear.
- A shark's teeth are literally as hard as steel.
- Rubber bands last longer when kept refrigerated.
- New York contains 920km (571miles) of shoreline.
- Some dinosaurs had tails over 13m (45 feet) long.
- Myrmecophobia is the fear of ants.
- A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
- 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.
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