- The first human-made object to break the sound barrier was a whip.
- 85% of plant life is found in the ocean.
- A soap bubble is 10,000 times thinner than the average human hair.
- Sound travels 4.3 times faster through water than in air.
- Hawaiian pizza was actually created in Canada.
- 'Topolino' is the name for Mickey Mouse Italy.
- A nanosecond is one billionth of a second.
- Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
- A bowling pin will fall at a tilt of 7.5 degrees.
- The Chinese used fingerprints as a method of identification as far back as AD 700.
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