- There are over 15,000 different kinds of rice.
- There are exactly 1,048,576 bytes in 1 megabyte.
- An arrow frog has enough poison to kill over 2,200 people.
- The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years.
- The word 'taxi' is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, and Portuguese.
- The first place in the world to allow women to vote New Zealand.
- A Sphygmomanometer measures blood pressure.
- The spikes of a newborn hedgehog begin to appear within 24 hours.
- A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21 inch tongue.
- The compass and straight edge were powerful tools in the advancement of geometry, allowing the construction of various lengths, angles and geometric shapes.
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