- The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.
- The first city to mint its own gold coins was Florence, Italy in 1252.
- The average life span of a mosquito is 2 weeks.
- Salt used to be a currency.
- Ancient Romans thought strawberries could cure bad breath and chronic fainting.
- A hard boiled eggs spin (uncooked or soft boiled don't).
- The praying mantis can turn its head 180 degrees.
- The tea bag was invented in 1908.
- Your most active muscles are in your eye.
- 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).
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