- The average human drinks over 60,566 litres (16,000 gallons) of water in a lifetime.
- Snails take the longest naps with some lasting as long as three years.
- The average person has 10,000 taste buds.
- The diameter of Jupiter is 152,800km (88 700 miles).
- Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of getting peanut butter stuck to the roof of your mouth.
- The study of insects is called entomology.
- A crocodile can't stick out its tongue.
- The fastest fish in the sea is the swordfish and can reach up to speeds of 108kph (68mph, 59knots).
- Men are stuck by lightning 7 times more than women.
- Archimedes of Syracuse lived around the year 250 BC and played a large role in the history of geometry including a method for determining the volume of objects with irregular shapes.
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