- 42% of men and women 25% don't wash their hands after using a public toilet.
- 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.
- The drinking straw was invented in 1886.
- The cheetah is the only cat that can't retract it's claws.
- A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
- Commercial airplanes maintain a cabin pressure of about 6,400 feet (just over 1 mile) above sea level.
- A flipped coin is more likely to land on the side it started on.
- Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
- The first taxi service began in New York in 1907.
- The study of insects is called entomology.
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