- Tarantula spiders can survive 2 and a half years without food.
- 44% of people have broken a bone.
- A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation (Death can occur about 10 days without sleep while starvation takes a few weeks).
- There are over 15,000 different kinds of rice.
- It takes 5 years for an oyster to produce a medium sized pearl.
- Whales have the slowest metabolism of all animals.
- Born in France, Pierre de Fermat was an amateur mathematician who is best known for Fermat's Last Theorem.
- Bees have 4 wings.
- Disneyland opened in 1955.
- Instant mashed potatoes (dehydrated potato flakes) were invented in Canadian in 1962.
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