- Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.
- Early sunscreens included ingredients like rice bran oil, iron, clay, and tar.
- Even with wings, humans would be unable to fly.
- Most of the Vitamin C found in fruits is in the skin.
- Nintendo first produced playing cards.
- The largest island in the Mediterranean sea is Sicily.
- Oak trees don't produce acorns until they are 50 years old.
- Alan Turing was a British mathematician and computer scientist who cracked German ciphers (codes) in the Second World War, contributed to mathematical logic and played an important role in the development of algorithms, artificial intelligence and the modern computer.
- Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18.
- The average age at which America's presidents have taken office is 54.
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