- The Chinese used fingerprints as a method of identification as far back as AD 700.
- New York contains 920km (571miles) of shoreline.
- Pandas spend 12 hours a day eating bamboo.
- 8% of people have an extra rib.
- 20% of China's plants are used in medicine.
- A compass needle does not point directly north.
- Police dogs are trained to respond to commands in foreign languages (usually German or Hungarian).
- The dot on top of the letter 'i' is called a tittle.
- Forty percent of twins invent their own language.
- It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa.
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