- Banana plants can grow as high as 6 meters (20 feet) tall.
- Before 1913 parents could mail their kids to Grandma's through the postal service.
- Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.
- The softest known mineral is talc.
- The corkscrew was invented in 1890.
- Minus 40C is exactly the same temperature as minus 40F.
- The Olympic flag was designed in 1913.
- Ripening bananas glow an intense blue under black light.
- Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras lived around the year 500 BC and is known for his Pythagorean theorem relating to the three sides of a right angle triangle: a^2 + b^2 = c^2.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
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