- Bees have 4 wings.
- Nintendo first produced playing cards.
- The $ sign was introduced in 1788.
- Are you terrified that a duck is watching you? Some people are. That is anatidaephobia.
- Despite its hump, a camel has a straight spine.
- A soap bubble is 10,000 times thinner than the average human hair.
- Bees can see ultraviolet light.
- The first US coast to coast aeroplane flight occurred in 1911 and took 49 days.
- 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.
- 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.
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