- The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.
- Squirrels lose more than half of the nuts they hide.
- It takes 1 week to make a jelly bean.
- Coffee trees produce its first full crop after 5 years old.
- Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa (better known as Fibonacci) lived between the years 1170 and 1250 and is best known today for Fibonacci numbers, the number sequence named after him. Fibonacci introduced the number sequence to Western Europe in his book 'Liber Abaci' after they had been described earlier by Indian mathematicians.
- Clinophobia is the fear of going to bed.
- Natural gas has no smell (the odor is artificially added so that people are able to identify leaks).
- Honey enters your blood stream within 20 minutes of being eaten.
- Strawberries are actually members of the rose family.
- Salt used to be a currency.
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