- Love carrots? Don't eat too many or you will turn orange.
- Rats and mice are ticklish, and even laugh when tickled.
- Sound travels 15 times faster through steel than air.
- The average mature oak tree sheds over 700,000 leaves in Autumn.
- Baby bunnies are called kittens.
- 10M bricks were used to build the Empire State Building.
- Banana plants are the largest plants without a woody stem (they belong to the same family as lilies, orchids and palms).
- While you sleep you can't smell anything, even really, really bad or potent smells.
- Greek mathematician Euclid is often referred to as the 'Father of Geometry' for his revolutionary ideas and influential textbook called 'Elements' that he wrote around the year 300 BC.
- There are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
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