- Artificial Christmas trees have outsold real ones every year since 1991.
- The sun is actually white, but the earth's atmosphere makes it appear yellow.
- The popsicle was invented in 1905 by an 11-year-old boy.
- Ichthyophobia is the fear of fish.
- A soap bubble is 10,000 times thinner than the average human hair.
- Bamboo makes up 99% of a panda's diet.
- Ostriches don't bury their heads in sand.
- That you can spell the word 'level' the same backwards.
- The Fibonacci sequence: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, ....
- The first train reached a top speed of only 8 kmh (5 mph).
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