- The average ice berg weighs 20,000,000 tons.
- There are 7 points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.
- Grasshoppers have white blood.
- The Statue of Liberty wears a size 879 sandal.
- Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler was probably the most influential mathematician of the 18th century, making discoveries in graph theory and introducing many modern mathematical words and notations among other things.
- There are over 130 species of owl.
- Mountain lions can whistle.
- Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today's measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.14).
- Useful life of a modern toilet is 50 years.
- Artificial Christmas trees have outsold real ones every year since 1991.
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