- The first flight traveled at less than 7 mph (ground speed).
- Camels are born without humps.
- The naming of tropical storms and hurricanes officially began in 1953.
- Crocodiles are colour blind.
- Your right lung takes in more air than your left.
- Golf was the first sport to be played on the moon.
- The first paperback book was printed by Penguin Publishing in 1935.
- Women blink twice as much as men.
- The statue of Liberty's mouth is 3 feet wide.
- Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras lived around the year 500 BC and is known for his Pythagorean theorem relating to the three sides of a right angle triangle: a^2 + b^2 = c^2.
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