- You can buy square watermelons in Japan (developed to stack better in supermarkets).
- The 'black box' that houses an airplanes voice recorder is actually orange so it can be more easily detected amid the debris of a plane crash.
- After you've eaten it takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
- Oysters can change from one gender to another and back again.
- The life span of a house fly is between 10 to 25 days.
- The world's first roller coaster opened in 1884 at Coney Island New York.
- Wheat is the world's most widely grown plant.
- A queen bee can lay up to 3,000 eggs in one day.
- An AA battery with no charge remaining will not bounce when dropped.
- You can't tickle yourself.
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