- It takes 110 silkworm cocoons to make an average tie.
- If you add up all the numbers from 1 to 100 consecutively (1 + 2 + 3...) it totals 5050.
- Rice is the staple food for 50% of the worlds population.
- Over 5 million people in Brazil are employed in the coffee industry.
- The average cat can jump 5 times as high as its tail is long.
- The water in the Dead Sea is so salty that its easier to float than sink.
- The first sport to be filmed was boxing in 1894.
- The life span of a house fly is between 10 to 25 days.
- Japan is the 3rd largest consumer of coffee.
- Shakespeare invented the words 'assassination' and 'bump'.
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