- Clinophobia is the fear of going to bed.
- The Nile river flows North.
- Humans shed and regrow outer skin cells every 27 days (almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime).
- John Cadbury founded the Cadbury chocolate company in England in 1842 producing the first chocolate bars.
- Wind moves air from high to low pressure areas.
- The oldest word in the English language is 'town'.
- Mistletoe is evergreen -even after a tree's leaves have fallen, it stays green.
- The human eye can detect more shades of green that any other colour.
- 45,000 thunderstorms around the world occur every day.
- No rain fell in Iquique, Chile, for 14 years.
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