- Blue whale tongues can weigh 8,000 pounds, or as much as an elephant, and their hearts weigh close to a ton.
- Powerful earthquakes can make the Earth spin faster.
- Due to gravitational effects you weigh is slightly less when the moon is directly overhead.
- Elephants communicate in sound waves below the frequency that humans can hear.
- 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.
- Toilets use 35% of indoor water use.
- A Boeing 747 airliner holds 216,847 litres (57,285 gallons) of fuel.
- What comes after a million, billion and trillion? A quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion and undecillion.
- The bigger the orange the sweeter sweeter it is.
- The dollar values on the board game Monopoly have been the same since 1935.
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