- Venetian blinds were invented in Japan.
- Snakes eat their body weight in one year.
- You burn more calories sleeping than watching TV.
- Dirty snow melts quicker than clean snow.
- Some tumors can grow hair, teeth, bones, even fingernails.
- The blueprints for the Eiffel Tower covered more than 14,000 square feet of drafting paper.
- There are over 900,000 known species of insects.
- Humans can encourage precipitation with cloud seeding.
- Indonesia is made up of more than 17,000 islands.
- Volleyball was invented in 1895.
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