- The first flight traveled at less than 7 mph (ground speed).
- Camels have 3 eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
- Einstein slept 10 hours a night.
- All the planets in our solar system could fit inside Jupiter.
- Indonesia is made up of more than 17,000 islands.
- There are over 2,500 different types of mushrooms.
- The fortune cookie was invented in San Francisco.
- The most common injury in ten pin bowling is a sore thumb.
- The 'black box' that houses an airplanes voice recorder is actually orange so it can be more easily detected amid the debris of a plane crash.
- Europe is the only continent without a desert.
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