- Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
- Goldfish can see both infrared and ultraviolet light.
- The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturdays.
- A group of whales is called a pod.
- Elephants can run up to 40kmh (25mph).
- Your brain uses 25% of all the oxygen your breathe.
- The grapefruit gets its name from the way it grows in clusters like grapes on a vine.
- All of the cobble stones used to line the streets in New York were originally stones found in the hulls of Belgian ships ballast.
- The longest one syllable word in the English language is 'screeched'.
- The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer.
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