- There are 70 million sheep in New Zealand (with 4 million people).
- Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
- The fortune cookie was invented in San Francisco.
- The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
- The fear of vegetables is called lachanophobia.
- Human eyes have over two million working parts.
- Isaac Newton discovered the laws of physics and brought together many important concepts of infinitesimal calculus.
- Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
- Almonds are members of the peach family.
- The first metered taxi was introduced in 1907.
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