- A blue whale can go up to 6 months without eating.
- Brazil borders every country in South America except Chile and Ecuador.
- The US shreds 7,000 tons of worn out currency each year.
- A platypus can eat its weight in worms every day.
- If you add up all the numbers from 1 to 100 consecutively (1 + 2 + 3...) it totals 5050.
- About 1/3 of your taste buds are numbed while flying.
- Reindeer hair is hollow inside like a tube.
- A Chinese checkerboard has 121 holes.
- The first aluminum drink can was introduced in 1964.
- The official state gem of Washington is petrified wood.
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