- Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today's measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.14).
- African Grey Parrots have vocabularies of over 200 words.
- MasterCard was originally called MasterCharge.
- Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards.
- Cows can walk up stairs but not down them.
- Ostriches have a 14 meter (46 foot) long small intestine.
- You can tell a turtle's gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt and females hiss.
- Emus can't walk backwards.
- That the first MTV video played was 'Video killed the radio star' by the Buggles.
- A suction cup will not work in outer space.
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