- Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
- You take over 23,000 breaths everyday.
- Spiders are arachnids and not insects.
- Between 1931 and 1969 Walt Disney was awarded 35 Oscars.
- Cans of diet soda will float in water but regular soda cans will sink.
- In the Middle Ages, chicken soup was considered an aphrodisiac.
- Squirrels lose more than half of the nuts they hide.
- The Snapple name combines the words Snappy and Apple.
- According to manufacturer Spalding the average lifespan of an NBA basketball is 10,000 bounces.
- As a world commodity coffee is second only to oil.
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