- Sharks can sense a drop of blood from 4km (2.5miles) away.
- The first letters of the months July through to November spell JASON.
- Maine produces more wild blueberries than anywhere else in the world.
- Female condors lays a single egg once every 2 years.
- Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18.
- A shark's teeth are literally as hard as steel.
- Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras lived around the year 500 BC and is known for his Pythagorean theorem relating to the three sides of a right angle triangle: a^2 + b^2 = c^2.
- A lemon contains more sugar than a strawberry.
- The average human drinks over 60,566 litres (16,000 gallons) of water in a lifetime.
- Mount Everest is 8.9km (5.5 miles) high.
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