- If you could drive your car upwards, you would be in space in less than an hour.
- In Japan, letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered good luck.
- There are over 40,000 muscles tendons in an elephant's trunk.
- The first letters of the months July through to November spell JASON.
- Brazil got its name from the Brazilian nut (not the other way around).
- Chinese mathematics developed around the 11th century BC and included important concepts related to negative numbers, decimals, algebra and geometry.
- Fire usually moves faster uphill than downhill.
- A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21 inch tongue.
- 80% of the world's food crops are pollinated by insects.
- New York's Central Park was opened in 1876.
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