- When water freezes it expans by 9%.
- The moon is 27% the size of the Earth.
- Don't like mosquitoes? Get a bat. They could eat 3,000 insects a night.
- Wine is sold in tinted bottles because it spoils when exposed to light.
- Americans consume over 10 billion bowls of soup each year.
- Men have 10% more red blood cells than women.
- The algae found in the world's oceans produces nearly 50% of the world's oxygen.
- The fastest gust of wind ever recorded on Earth was 253 miles per hour.
- In the 17th century Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler made important discoveries relating to planetary motion and orbits.
- There are only 3 sets of letters on a keyboard which are in alphabetical order (f g h, j k l, and o p).
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