- The summer solstice marks the first day of summer and the longest day of the year.
- You can smell a skunk 1.6km (1 mile) away.
- The diameter of the sun is 1,390,000km (865,000 miles).
- Strawberries taste sweeter at room temperature.
- The average person spends two weeks of their life waiting at traffic lights.
- All pilots on international flights identify themselves in English regardless of their country of origin.
- A species of moth has the best hearing in the world.
- Opposite faces of dice always add up to 7.
- 2/3 of the world's eggplants are grown in the US New Jersey.
- In 1872 Yellowstone in the US was the world's first national park.
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