- One of the ingredients needed to make dynamite is peanuts.
- Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
- Labor Day is the unofficial end of hot dog season.
- Finland has the largest number of islands in the world (over 179,550).
- Maine produces more toothpicks than any other state in the U.S.
- Male humpback whales can sing up to half an hour nonstop and even mimic other whale songs.
- A bear has 42 teeth.
- The total mass of ants on the planet would actually outweigh all of the world’s wild birds and mammals.
- Ombrophobia is the fear of rain.
- The world's first roller coaster opened in 1884 at Coney Island New York.
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