- Brazil is named after a tree.
- There are over 97,000 km (60,000 miles) of blood vessels in the average person.
- The average life span of a mosquito is 2 weeks.
- The subject of the first printed book in England was about chess.
- It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa.
- India has over 50 million monkeys.
- Heavy raindrops are shaped like hamburger buns.
- The most eaten fruit in America is the banana.
- Alan Turing was a British mathematician and computer scientist who cracked German ciphers (codes) in the Second World War, contributed to mathematical logic and played an important role in the development of algorithms, artificial intelligence and the modern computer.
- Crocodiles are responsible for over a 1,000 deaths each year by the Banks of the Nile river.
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