- New York contains 920km (571miles) of shoreline.
- Greeks constructed aesthetically pleasing buildings and artworks based on the golden ratio of approximately 1.618.
- Birds need gravity to swallow.
- Beavers were once the size of bears.
- Venus is the only planet to rotate clockwise.
- A piece of paper cannot be folded more than 7 times.
- Before 1863 the postal service in the US was free.
- It takes 50 minutes to soft boil and two hours to hard boil an ostrich egg.
- Pandas spend 12 hours a day eating bamboo.
- The average age of a polar bear in the wild is 17 years.
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