- Different names for the number 0 include zero, nought, naught, nil, zilch and zip.
- On your birthday you share it with 9 million others.
- 8.5 million tons of water evaporates from the Dead Sea every day.
- At the deepest point in the ocean, the water pressure is equivalent to having about 50 jumbo jets piled on top of you.
- The odds of being struck by lightning are 600,000 to 1.
- It takes an interaction of 72 muscles to produce human speech.
- In South Korea, it is against the rules for a professional baseball player to wear cabbage leaves inside of his hat.
- The equals sign (=) was invented in 1557 by a Welsh mathematician named Robert Recorde.
- When your face blushes so does your stomach lining.
- Only pregnant females polar bears hibernate.
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