- There are over 40,000 muscles tendons in an elephant's trunk.
- Rainbows can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon (the sun needs to be less than 40 above the horizon).
- Born in France, Pierre de Fermat was an amateur mathematician who is best known for Fermat's Last Theorem.
- Petrol has no specific freezing point (it can freezes at any temperature between -82 and -115C (-180 and -240F).
- Most snakes have 1 lung.
- Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18.
- The first vacuum was so large, it was brought to a house with horses.
- Sound travels 10 times faster through granite than air.
- the word typewriter is the longest word that can be typed using only the top row of a keyboard.
- The fastest gust of wind ever recorded on Earth was 253 miles per hour.
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