- An avocado is actually a large berry.
- Your right lung takes in more air than your left.
- The Pacific Ocean is the world's largest.
- You transfer more germs shaking hands than kissing.
- The golden ratio of approximately 1.618 between two quantities such as lengths often appears in nature (tree branching, uncurling ferns, pine cone arrangements etc) and has been used throughout history to create aesthetically pleasing designs and art works such as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
- Polar bears are strictly carnivores.
- Acorns are poisonous to humans (if eaten it can cause damage to your kidneys).
- A female ferret is called a jill.
- Brontophobia is the fear of thunderstorms.
- Modern day geometry has made developments in a number of areas, including those that make use of the raw computing power of today's computers.
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