- A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
- There is no rice in rice paper.
- An ostrich can outrun a horse.
- Penguins mate for life and both parents care for their young.
- Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today's measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.14).
- The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.
- There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.
- Pound cake got its name from the original recipe which called for a pound of butter.
- Akousticophobia is the fear of noises.
- There are over 690 known species of bats.
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