- The average lifespan of a squirrel is 9 years.
- Frogs don't usually swallow water (they absorb most of the moisture they need through their skin).
- A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in tall.
- The most valuable nutrients of a potato are its skin.
- Over 5 million people in Brazil are employed in the coffee industry.
- Heavier, not bigger, lemons produce more juice.
- Pound cake got its name from the original recipe which called for a pound of butter.
- New York contains 920km (571miles) of shoreline.
- Pelicans consume around a 1/3 of its body weight in a single meal.
- The name of the popular search engine 'Google' came from a misspelling of the word 'googol', which is a very large number (the number one followed by one hundred zeros to be exact).
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