- A blue whale can weigh as much as 30 elephants and as long as 3 large tour buses.
- The Olympic flag was designed in 1913.
- Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
- Walruses are true party animals; they can go without sleep for 84 hours.
- Your tongue is the fastest healing part of your body.
- A squid has 10 tentacles.
- A Greek mathematician named Euclid who lived around the year 300 BC is often referred to as the 'Father of Geometry' for his amazing geometry works that included the influential 'Elements', which remained the main textbook for teaching mathematics until around the early 20th century.
- Camels have 3 eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
- Chalk is made from tiny plankton fossils.
- The only one-syllabled U.S. state is Maine.
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