- It takes a plastic container over 50,000 years to start decomposing.
- People who work at night tend to weigh more.
- The woodpecker can hammer wood up to 16 times per second.
- Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries.
- Born in 1953, British mathematician Andrew Wiles is most famous for proving Fermat's Last Theorem.
- The yo-yo was originally used as a weapon for hunting the in the Philippines.
- The first rugby club was formed in 1843.
- At birth a Dalmatian is always pure white.
- The official state gem of Washington is petrified wood.
- There is 200 times more gold in the world's oceans than has been mined.
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