- Dolphins are unable to smell.
- It was once illegal to slam your car door in Switzerland.
- The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.
- Dolphins can kill sharks by ramming them with their snout.
- 93% of households in Denmark consume wine (the highest % in the world with France second with 85% of households).
- Only female mosquitoes bite.
- Octopuses think with their tentacles.
- The 'black box' that houses an airplanes voice recorder is actually orange so it can be more easily detected amid the debris of a plane crash.
- The dollar values on the board game Monopoly have been the same since 1935.
- Chinese mathematics developed around the 11th century BC and included important concepts related to negative numbers, decimals, algebra and geometry.
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