- Giraffes can't swim.
- A human brain weighs around 3 pounds.
- 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).
- You have fewer muscles than a caterpillar.
- Sound travels 10 times faster through granite than air.
- The word 'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.
- It was once illegal to slam your car door in Switzerland.
- The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
- The word 'underground is the only word that begins and ends with the letters 'und'.
- Ostriches have a powerful immune system.
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