- Antarctica is home to the largest desert in the world.
- Mount Everest is 8.9km (5.5 miles) high.
- Employees are more likely to book holidays off work on a Monday that any other week day.
- Your liver has over 500 functions.
- Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today's measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.14).
- The first aluminum drink can was introduced in 1964.
- The word laser stands for 'Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation'.
- The Greek national anthem has 158 verses.
- Opposite faces of dice always add up to 7.
- Sound travels 4.3 times faster through water than in air.
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