- Banana plants are the largest plants without a woody stem (they belong to the same family as lilies, orchids and palms).
- The fortune cookie was invented in San Francisco.
- Your foot and your forearm are the same length.
- Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than air.
- The most common mental illnesses are anxiety and depression.
- The average pool cue is 1.4m (4.75ft) long.
- Greek mathematician Euclid is often referred to as the 'Father of Geometry' for his revolutionary ideas and influential textbook called 'Elements' that he wrote around the year 300 BC.
- The only one-syllabled U.S. state is Maine.
- Ostriches have a powerful immune system.
- Armadillos can walk underwater.
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