- Niagara Falls could fill 4,000 bathtubs every second.
- Whales have the slowest metabolism of all animals.
- A third of Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
- Only pregnant females polar bears hibernate.
- Water can boil and freeze at the same time.
- An astronaut can be up to 2 inches taller returning from space (the cartilage disks in the spine expand in the absence of gravity).
- Hawaii was originally called the Sandwich Islands.
- Mosquitoes prefer to bite people with Type O blood.
- A cheetahs top speed is 114kph (70mph).
- Over 5 million people in Brazil are employed in the coffee industry.
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