- Astronauts actually get taller when in space.
- Hummingbirds can't walk.
- When a koala is born, it is about the size of a jelly bean.
- You can buy square watermelons in Japan (developed to stack better in supermarkets).
- Wooly mammoths grew as tall as 14 feet, weighing 10 tons. Mammoths used tusks for protection and to attract mates.
- Once a women reachs the age of 30 they lose 1% of their bone mass every year thereafter (by the time a women is 50 she will have lost 20%).
- If you could drive to the sun at a speed of 88.5 km/h (55 mp/h) it would take around 193 years.
- Per person France consumes the most cheese.
- The first human-made object to break the sound barrier was a whip.
- Elephants are the only mammal that can't jump.
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