- Britain was the first country to use postage stamps.
- When grazing or resting, cows tend to align their bodies with the magnetic north and south poles.
- Adult humans are the only mammal that can't breathe and swallow at the same time.
- Fire's alchemy symbol is a triangle, resembling a campfire.
- You have over 600 muscles.
- Ralph Lauren's original name was Ralph Lifshitz.
- The game of basketball was first played using a soccer ball and two peach baskets.
- As a world commodity coffee is second only to oil.
- A bear in hibernation loses up to 25% of its body weight.
- Squirrels lose more than half of the nuts they hide.
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