- Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.
- Baby koalas are fed poo by their parents after they are born which helps them digest Eucalyptus leaves later in life.
- African Grey Parrots have vocabularies of over 200 words.
- The world's knowledge is growing so fast that 90% of what we will know in 50 years time will be discovered in those 50 years.
- Americans eat 35,000 tons of pasta a year.
- Hawaii was originally called the Sandwich Islands.
- Horses have 18 more bones than humans.
- The familiar smell of rain is called petrichor.
- The only letter which doesn't appear in the Periodic Table is j.
- A human being could swim through the blood vessels of a blue whale.
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