- Sharks can sense a drop of blood from 4km (2.5miles) away.
- Halley's comet passes the Earth every 76 years (the next time it will return will be 2062).
- The diameter of Jupiter is 152,800km (88 700 miles).
- The first hot air balloon passengers were a sheep, duck, and rooster.
- 2/3 of the world's eggplants are grown in the US New Jersey.
- Myrmecophobia is the fear of ants.
- Alan Turing was a British mathematician and computer scientist who cracked German ciphers (codes) in the Second World War, contributed to mathematical logic and played an important role in the development of algorithms, artificial intelligence and the modern computer.
- Tachophobia is the fear of speed.
- Zoophobia is the fear of animals.
- Orange Fanta is the 3rd largest selling soft drink in the world.
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