- Miami installed the first ATM for inline skaters.
- New York contains 920km (571miles) of shoreline.
- The familiar smell of rain is called petrichor.
- There are more skin cancer cases caused by tanning beds than there are lung cancer cases caused by smoking.
- You can only see a rainbow if you have your back to the sun.
- You take over 23,000 breaths everyday.
- A Greek mathematician named Euclid who lived around the year 300 BC is often referred to as the 'Father of Geometry' for his amazing geometry works that included the influential 'Elements', which remained the main textbook for teaching mathematics until around the early 20th century.
- The average person will consume 100 tons of food and 45,424 liters (12,000 gallons) of water in their lifetime.
- Icelandic phone books are listed by first names (not surnames).
- Japanese people don't have middle names.
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