- August has the highest percentage of births.
- Bill Gates began programming computers at the of age 13.
- A bumble bee flaps its wings at 160 times a second.
- Not a single number has the letter "b" in it until you reach a billion.
- You brain weights 2% of your body weight though uses 20% of all oxygen you breathe and 15% of the bodys blood supply.
- The word 'taxi' is spelled the same in English, German, French, Swedish, and Portuguese.
- The term 'disc jockey' was first used in 1937.
- Sharks never stop moving even when they sleep or rest.
- In the 17th century Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler made important discoveries relating to planetary motion and orbits.
- A duck can't walk without bobbing its head.
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