- Maine produces more wild blueberries than anywhere else in the world.
- The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer.
- Draughts (checkers) is older than chess.
- A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber of the same size.
- Platypuses are venomous.
- Spiders are arachnids and not insects.
- A 'googolplex' is the number 1 followed by a googol zeros, a number so ridiculously big that it can't be written because there literally isn't enough room in the entire universe to fit it in!.
- Over 5 million people in Brazil are employed in the coffee industry.
- Born in 1953, British mathematician Andrew Wiles is most famous for proving Fermat's Last Theorem.
- 1 plain milk chocolate bar has more protein than a banana.
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