- The world's most expensive spice is saffron.
- All the blinking in one day equates to having your eyes closed for 30 minutes.
- Despite its hump, a camel has a straight spine.
- India has over 50 million monkeys.
- Dairy products account for 29% of all food consumed in the U.S.
- Every ton of recycled paper saves about 17 trees.
- A 1/4 of your bones are in your feet.
- 85% of plant life is found in the ocean.
- A flea can jump 350 times its body length.
- Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler was probably the most influential mathematician of the 18th century, making discoveries in graph theory and introducing many modern mathematical words and notations among other things.
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