- Pandas spend 12 hours a day eating bamboo.
- The drinking straw was invented in 1886.
- The average soccer ball is made up of 32 leather panels and held together by 642 stitches.
- The Eifel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets.
- The bigger the orange the sweeter sweeter it is.
- Hippopotamuses have skin 3.8cm (1.5in) thick.
- African Grey Parrots have vocabularies of over 200 words.
- The word 'almost' is the longest word spelt alphabetically.
- There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia.
- The Eiffel Tower is repainted every 7 years.
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