- The human eye can detect more shades of green that any other colour.
- There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.
- There are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on earth.
- Women's hearts typically beat faster than men's hearts.
- Pelicans consume around a 1/3 of its body weight in a single meal.
- Archimedes of Syracuse lived around the year 250 BC and played a large role in the history of geometry including a method for determining the volume of objects with irregular shapes.
- A hard boiled eggs spin (uncooked or soft boiled don't).
- Blue whale tongues can weigh 8,000 pounds, or as much as an elephant, and their hearts weigh close to a ton.
- Female condors lays a single egg once every 2 years.
- The humming bird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
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