- The Eiffel Tower is over 300m (984 ft) tall.
- The worlds smallest bird is the 'bee hummingbird' found in Cuba.
- The first sailing boats were built in Egypt.
- A duck can't walk without bobbing its head.
- The first parachute jump from plane was in 1918 over France.
- Venetian blinds were invented in Japan.
- American Black bears are not just black but include bears of varying colors including blonde, cinnamon, brown, white and even silver-blue.
- Bernhard Riemann was an influential German mathematician who contributed to differential geometry and analysis, paving the way for the development of general relativity by Albert Einstein.
- Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
- Onions are part of the lily family.
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