- 2/3 of the world's eggplants are grown in the US New Jersey.
- Catfish have over 100,000 taste buds.
- Peanut butter can be converted into diamonds.
- Blue flames are the hottest, reaching temps up to 3,000 degrees Celsius.
- Clothes dried outside smell better because of a process called photolysis (sunlight breaks down compounds that cause odor).
- Ostrich meat is the leanest of all red meats.
- Bernhard Riemann was an influential German mathematician who contributed to differential geometry and analysis, paving the way for the development of general relativity by Albert Einstein.
- Tarantula spiders can survive 2 and a half years without food.
- The Colgate toothpaste company started out making starch, soap, and candles.
- The naming of tropical storms and hurricanes officially began in 1953.
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