- Blue and white are the most common school colors.
- Spiny lobsters migrate in groups of 50 or more, forming a conga line on the ocean floor.
- Wind moves air from high to low pressure areas.
- A 15th anniversary is called a quindecennial.
- The smallest bones in the human body are found in your ear.
- The ancient Greeks first grew carrots as a form of medicine and not a food.
- The softest known mineral is talc.
- Rainbows can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon (the sun needs to be less than 40 above the horizon).
- Only female mosquitoes bite.
- Archimedes of Syracuse lived around the year 250 BC and among other things, developed a method for determining the volume of objects with irregular shapes.
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