- 44% of people have broken a bone.
- Toilets use 35% of indoor water use.
- In 1642 French mathematician Blaise Pascal invented the mechanical calculator.
- A bolt of lightning can reach temperatures hotter than the sun.
- Tennis was originally played with bare hands.
- A group of foxes is called a skulk.
- Want chocolate smelling poo? There is a pill for that.
- The world's first paved streets were laid in Rome in 170 B.C.
- The first city to mint its own gold coins was Florence, Italy in 1252.
- The familiar smell of rain is called petrichor.
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