- Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
- Greek mathematics developed from around the 7th century BC, producing many important theories thanks to great mathematicians such as Pythagoras, Euclid and Archimedes.
- Less than 3% of the water on Earth is fresh.
- Toads only eat moving prey.
- Spain's largest source of income is from tourism.
- A blue whale can go up to 6 months without eating.
- The grapefruit gets its name from the way it grows in clusters like grapes on a vine.
- The Snapple name combines the words Snappy and Apple.
- The first James Bond movie was called 'Dr. No'.
- Each red blood cell lives an average of 4 months and travels between the lungs and other tissue 75,000 times before returning to bone marrow to die.
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