- The average porcupine has 30,000 spikes.
- The collective name for a group of unicorns is called a blessing.
- Don't like mosquitoes? Get a bat. They could eat 3,000 insects a night.
- Human eyes have over two million working parts.
- Maine produces more wild blueberries than anywhere else in the world.
- A pelican can hold more food in its beak than its belly.
- It takes 50 minutes to soft boil and two hours to hard boil an ostrich egg.
- Banana plants are the largest plants without a woody stem (they belong to the same family as lilies, orchids and palms).
- 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).
- Hypnotism is banned in public schools in San Diego (U.S.).
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