- 3 teaspoons make up 1 tablespoon.
- Most of the Vitamin C found in fruits is in the skin.
- Fresh apples float because they contain 25% air.
- It took Leonardo Da Vinci 10 years to paint Mona Lisa.
- Gunpowder is formed by mixing charcoal, saltpetre and sulphur.
- Gatophobia is the fear of cats.
- Americans eat 35,000 tons of pasta a year.
- The number Pi (the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle) can't be expressed as a fraction, making it an irrational number. It never repeats and never ends when written as a decimal.
- It was once illegal to slam your car door in Switzerland.
- MTV (Music Television) made its debut at 12:01 a.m. August 1st 1981 (the first music video shown 'Video killed the radio star' by the Buggles).
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