- If you could drive your car upwards, you would be in space in less than an hour.
- The familiar smell of rain is called petrichor.
- Between 1931 and 1969 Walt Disney was awarded 35 Oscars.
- The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer.
- Elephants can smell water from miles away.
- 80% of the world's food crops are pollinated by insects.
- You will experience the billionth seconds of your life when you are 31 years old.
- 1 gigayear = 1,000,000,000,000 years.
- The word denim comes from 'de Nimes' or from Nimes which is a town in France.
- A person produces enough saliva to fill 2 average size swimming pools during their lifetime.
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