- When a member of a whale group is sick or injured, other whales will push it up to the surface of the water to help it breathe.
- Mount Everest is 8.9km (5.5 miles) high.
- Antarctica is 98% ice and 2% barren rock.
- In 1900 the average life span in the US was 47.
- Unless food is mixed with saliva you can't taste it.
- Giraffes has the highest blood pressure of any animal.
- There is 200 times more gold in the world's oceans than has been mined.
- Alan Turing was a British mathematician and computer scientist who cracked German ciphers (codes) in the Second World War, contributed to mathematical logic and played an important role in the development of algorithms, artificial intelligence and the modern computer.
- Twins have a very high occurrence of left-handedness.
- The word utopia u2013 an ideal place u2013 ironically comes from a Greek word meaning u201cno place.u201d.
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