- Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.
- There are over 15,000 different kinds of rice.
- The human eye blinks over 4,200,000 times a year.
- Rio de Janeiro translates to river of January.
- Salt used to be a currency.
- The first letters of the months July through to November spell JASON.
- Diamonds are the hardest natural substance.
- You have over 600 muscles.
- Rubber bands last longer when kept refrigerated.
- The 'black box' that houses an airplanes voice recorder is actually orange so it can be more easily detected amid the debris of a plane crash.
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