- The Statue of Liberty weighs over 225 tons.
- Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today's measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.14).
- Mount Everest is 8.9km (5.5 miles) high.
- The Eifel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets.
- Bees can see ultraviolet light.
- Blueberries are one of the only natural foods that are truly blue in color.
- Brazil got its name from the Brazilian nut (not the other way around).
- The word 'lethologica' describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
- Australia was originally called New Holland.
- The fingerprints of koala bear are indistinguishable to that of a human.
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