- Ants can lift 50 times their own weight.
- In the 17th century Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler made important discoveries relating to planetary motion and orbits.
- The number 4 is the only number that has the same number of letters in it.
- The sun is actually white, but the earth's atmosphere makes it appear yellow.
- The word 'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.
- Americans eat 35,000 tons of pasta a year.
- Women were not allowed to vote in France until 1944.
- Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
- The most sung song is happy birthday.
- Tarantula spiders can survive 2 and a half years without food.
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