- A group of whales is called a pod.
- Wheat is the world's most widely grown plant.
- Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.
- After you've eaten it takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
- The middle finger has the fastest growing nail.
- Cows don't have upper front teeth.
- Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today's measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.14).
- The Arctic Ocean is the smallest in the world.
- A Boeing 747 airliner holds 216,847 litres (57,285 gallons) of fuel.
- Iceland consumes more Coca Cola per capita than any other country.
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