- Pound cake got its name from the original recipe which called for a pound of butter.
- The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.
- Bernhard Riemann was an influential German mathematician who contributed to differential geometry and analysis, paving the way for the development of general relativity by Albert Einstein.
- The subject of the first printed book in England was about chess.
- The Cambodian alphabet has 74 letters.
- African Grey Parrots have vocabularies of over 200 words.
- There are over 97,000 km (60,000 miles) of blood vessels in the average person.
- Every day 7% of the US eats at McDonalds.
- Banana plants can grow as high as 6 meters (20 feet) tall.
- Not all your taste buds are on our tongue (10% are on the insides of you cheeks).
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