- Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles a day.
- Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.
- 20% of China's plants are used in medicine.
- 2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end with a 2 or a 5.
- Baboons were once trained by Egyptians to wait on tables.
- A shrimp has 5 pairs of legs.
- Ancient Egyptians used geometry principles as far back as 3000 BC, using equations to approximate the area of circles among other formulas.
- Tomatoes are considered both fruits and vegetablesu2014the answer depends on whom you ask.
- The smallest ten prime numbers are: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23 and 29.
- The fortune cookie was invented in San Francisco.
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