- Banana plants can grow as high as 6 meters (20 feet) tall.
- There are exactly 1,048,576 bytes in 1 megabyte.
- The word fortnight is a contraction of the 2 words 'fourteen nights'.
- It is not possible to tickle yourself.
- The Nile river flows North.
- There are only 4 words in the English language which end in 'dous' (they are: hazardous, horrendous, stupendous and tremendous).
- Dolphins can hear underwater sounds from 24km (15miles) away.
- Crocodiles never outgrow their enclosure.
- That in the 17th century the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places (today to 1.2411 trillion).
- Lettuce is the worlds most popular green vegitable.
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