- Butterflies can taste with their hind feet.
- Polar bears can smell a seal from 20 miles away.
- The past tense for the English word 'dare' is 'durst'.
- Pinocchio is Italian for 'pine head'.
- New York was once called New Amsterdam.
- Chinese mathematics developed around the 11th century BC and included important concepts related to negative numbers, decimals, algebra and geometry.
- Months that start on a Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th.
- No number from one to 999 includes the letter "a" in its word form.
- 8.5 million tons of water evaporates from the Dead Sea every day.
- A flipped coin is more likely to land on the side it started on.
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