- Hummingbirds are the only bird that can fly backwards.
- If you could drive your car upwards, you would be in space in less than an hour.
- Laughing lowers levels of stress and strengthens your immune system.
- Women blink twice as much as men.
- 8.5 million tons of water evaporates from the Dead Sea every day.
- Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras lived around the year 500 BC and is known for his Pythagorean theorem relating to the three sides of a right angle triangle: a^2 + b^2 = c^2.
- There are over 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
- Instant mashed potatoes (dehydrated potato flakes) were invented in Canadian in 1962.
- The Titanic was built in Belfast.
- New Zealands first hospital was opened in 1843.
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