- Australia has 10,685 beaches; you could visit a new beach every day for more than 29 years.
- The yoke of an Ostrich egg is the largest cell in the world.
- It takes 1 alligator to make a pair of shoes and 3 for a pair of boots.
- A very small raindrop can travel up to 7 minutes from the sky before reaching you.
- In the 17th century Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler made important discoveries relating to planetary motion and orbits.
- A car travelling at 80kph (50mph) uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance.
- 1 square inch of human skin contains 625 sweat glands.
- 21% of people don't make their bed in the morning.
- Sea water is approximately 3.5% salt.
- You can only see a rainbow if you have your back to the sun.
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