- Cooking or freezing does not reduce the heat (spiciness) of a chile pepper.
- Ants don't like baby powder (talcum powder).
- A flea can jump 350 times its body length.
- The total mass of ants on the planet would actually outweigh all of the world’s wild birds and mammals.
- A sharks top speed is 70kmh (44mph).
- Sesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
- Hawaii was originally called the Sandwich Islands.
- Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine.
- Petrol has no specific freezing point (it can freezes at any temperature between -82 and -115C (-180 and -240F).
- The average porcupine has 30,000 spikes.
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