- The blueprints for the Eiffel Tower covered more than 14,000 square feet of drafting paper.
- The average golf ball has 336 dimples.
- A human brain weighs around 3 pounds.
- The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.
- Rio de Janeiro translates to river of January.
- The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.
- 1 gigayear = 1,000,000,000,000 years.
- The human body creates 2,500,000 new red blood cells every second.
- Plants, like humans, can run a fever if they are sick.
- Glaciers and ice sheets hold about 69 percent of the world’s freshwater.
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