- Over 500 meteorites hit the Earth each year.
- The word 'taxi' is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, and Portuguese.
- Before emojis, there were emoticons, which are icons created from keyboard characters.
- Snails take the longest naps with some lasting as long as three years.
- Dragonflies have six legs but cannot walk.
- A bumble bee flaps its wings at 160 times a second.
- The supersonic Concorde jet made its first trial flight on January 1st 1969.
- The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
- A chameleon's tongue is twice as long as its body.
- Here is Pi written to 100 decimal places:
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751
058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679.
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