- Coffee trees produce its first full crop after 5 years old.
- The average person sheds .7kg (1.5 pounds) of skin each year.
- The ancient Greeks first grew carrots as a form of medicine and not a food.
- The average bed contains over 6 billion dust mites.
- New York was once called New Amsterdam.
- Dragonflies have six legs but cannot walk.
- Whale songs can be used to map out the ocean floor.
- Once a women reachs the age of 30 they lose 1% of their bone mass every year thereafter (by the time a women is 50 she will have lost 20%).
- Elephants are capable of swimming 20 miles a day.
- Every minute about a billion tons of water falls on Earth.
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