- The game of basketball was first played using a soccer ball and two peach baskets.
- The word 'underground is the only word that begins and ends with the letters 'und'.
- Japan is the 3rd largest consumer of coffee.
- The Amazon rainforest produces half the world's oxygen supply.
- Whale songs can be used to map out the ocean floor.
- Siderodromophobia is the fear of trains.
- Franklin Mars invented the Snickers Bar in 1930.
- Sea water is approximately 3.5% salt.
- An astronaut can be up to 2 inches taller returning from space (the cartilage disks in the spine expand in the absence of gravity).
- The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that has 3 syllables (all others have 1).
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