- The word 'uncopyrightable' is the is the only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating any letter.
- It is illegal to sing off-key in North Carolina.
- The grapefruit gets its name from the way it grows in clusters like grapes on a vine.
- The Eiffel Tower is repainted every 7 years.
- Female lions are the primary hunters of the pride.
- Between 1931 and 1969 Walt Disney was awarded 35 Oscars.
- Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras lived around the year 500 BC and is known for his Pythagorean theorem relating to the three sides of a right angle triangle: a^2 + b^2 = c^2.
- Fingernails grow faster than toenails.
- The first sailing boats were built in Egypt.
- Bats are the only mammals that fly.
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