- Heavy raindrops are shaped like hamburger buns.
- The Australian aircraft carrier QANTAS stands for Queensland And Northern Territories Aerial Service.
- Almonds are members of the peach family.
- A group of rhinos is called a crash.
- England's Stonehenge is over 5,000 years old.
- The average bank teller loses $250 every year.
- Halley's comet passes the Earth every 76 years (the next time it will return will be 2062).
- The yoke of an Ostrich egg is the largest cell in the world.
- Each year, the Moon moves away from Earth by about four centimeters.
- The symbols used for addition (+) and subtraction (-) have been around for thousands of years but it wasn't until the 16th century that most mathematical symbols were invented. Before this time math equations were written in words, making it very time consuming.
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