- Acrophobia is the fear of heights.
- A deck of cards should be shuffled at least 7 times before playing.
- In eastern Africa you can buy beer brewed from bananas.
- Banana plants are the largest plants without a woody stem (they belong to the same family as lilies, orchids and palms).
- Archimedes of Syracuse lived around the year 250 BC and among other things, developed a method for determining the volume of objects with irregular shapes.
- Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
- Fresh apples float because they contain 25% air.
- There are over 600 windows on the Empire State Building.
- Wind doesn't make a sound until it blows against an object.
- A very small raindrop can travel up to 7 minutes from the sky before reaching you.
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