- The Grand Canyon can hold around 900 trillion footballs.
- Tiger Woods' real first name is Eldrick.
- The water in the Dead Sea is so salty that its easier to float than sink.
- The golden ratio of approximately 1.618 between two quantities such as lengths often appears in nature (tree branching, uncurling ferns, pine cone arrangements etc) and has been used throughout history to create aesthetically pleasing designs and art works such as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
- Mosquitoes prefer children to adults and blondes to brunettes.
- Warthogs live for 15 years.
- A ten-gallon hat holds less than a gallon of liquid.
- Heliophobia is the fear of sunlight.
- You cannot taste food until mixed with saliva.
- The Cambodian alphabet has 74 letters.
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