- The Eifel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets.
- Cats can jump up to 7 times their tail length.
- Ancient Egyptians used geometry principles as far back as 3000 BC, using equations to approximate the area of circles among other formulas.
- Chimps can develop their own fashion trends.
- The movie Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make with $5 million going towards actor's salaries.
- Greyhounds can see better than any other dog breed.
- Cats spend 66% of their life asleep.
- In 1900 the average life span in the US was 47.
- The Super Soaker was designed and invented by a NASA engineer.
- Each red blood cell lives an average of 4 months and travels between the lungs and other tissue 75,000 times before returning to bone marrow to die.
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