- Rainbows can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon (the sun needs to be less than 40 above the horizon).
- The lifespan of a taste bud is about ten days.
- Beavers were once the size of bears.
- You fart on average 14 times a day, and each fart travels from your body at 7 mph.
- The number 1 cause of blindness in the US is diabetes.
- Women were not allowed to vote in France until 1944.
- A humming bird flaps its wings up to 90 times a second (5,400 times a minute).
- The coloured part of your eye is called the iris.
- You can buy square watermelons in Japan (developed to stack better in supermarkets).
- Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury.
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