- The Earth is struck by lightning over 100 times every second.
- The average porcupine has 30,000 spikes.
- A group of owls is called a parliament.
- A full moon is 9 times brighter than a half moon.
- The fastest insect is the Australian dragon fly (its top speed is 57 km/h (35mp/h)).
- The croissant was invented in Austria.
- The golden ratio of approximately 1.618 between two quantities such as lengths often appears in nature (tree branching, uncurling ferns, pine cone arrangements etc) and has been used throughout history to create aesthetically pleasing designs and art works such as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
- Reindeer like bananas.
- There are exactly 1,048,576 bytes in 1 megabyte.
- Hawaiian pizza was actually created in Canada.
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