- Glaciers and ice sheets hold about 69 percent of the world’s freshwater.
- The aphid insect is born pregnant.
- Bees and house flies flap their wings 200 times a second.
- The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
- Australia has 10,685 beaches; you could visit a new beach every day for more than 29 years.
- Chalk is made from tiny plankton fossils.
- Glass balls can bounce higher than rubber ones.
- Orange Fanta is the 3rd largest selling soft drink in the world.
- Even with wings, humans would be unable to fly.
- A third of Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
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