- Brazil covers 50% of the South American continent.
- All the people on Earth could fit into a 1 km cube.
- A blue whale's heart beats just twice a minute when it dives.
- All pilots on international flights identify themselves in English regardless of their country of origin.
- In South Korea, it is against the rules for a professional baseball player to wear cabbage leaves inside of his hat.
- All of the cobble stones used to line the streets in New York were originally stones found in the hulls of Belgian ships ballast.
- The Snapple name combines the words Snappy and Apple.
- Koalas sleep around 18 hours a day.
- 'Topolino' is the name for Mickey Mouse Italy.
- The 50-star flag was designed for a high school class assignment.
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