- Bananas contain no fat, cholesterol or sodium.
- Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz.
- A humming bird flaps its wings up to 90 times a second (5,400 times a minute).
- Mountain lions can whistle.
- Hawaii is the only state with one school district.
- A pigeon's feathers are heavier than its bones.
- The atomic symbol for iron is Fe (the original name for iron was Ferric).
- Sir Isaac Newton was 23 when he discovered the law of gravity.
- For every human there are 200 million insects.
- The 'black box' that houses an airplanes voice recorder is actually orange so it can be more easily detected amid the debris of a plane crash.
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