- The diameter of the sun is 1,390,000km (865,000 miles).
- Monopoly is the most played board game in the world.
- When grazing or resting, cows tend to align their bodies with the magnetic north and south poles.
- The vocabulary of the average person is between 5,000 to 6,000 words.
- The supersonic Concorde jet made its first trial flight on January 1st 1969.
- The longest time a person has been in a coma is 37 years.
- You begin to feel thirsty when your body losses 1% of water.
- EMI awards stands for 'Electrical and Musical Instruments'.
- Draughts (checkers) is older than chess.
- Each red blood cell lives an average of 4 months and travels between the lungs and other tissue 75,000 times before returning to bone marrow to die.
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