- 80% of the world's food crops are pollinated by insects.
- An avocado is actually a large berry.
- If you add up all the numbers from 1 to 100 consecutively (1 + 2 + 3...) it totals 5050.
- Children have more taste buds than adults.
- The teeth of a viperfish are so sharp and long that if it closed its mouth with the teeth inside, it would pierce its brain.
- Greeks constructed aesthetically pleasing buildings and artworks based on the golden ratio of approximately 1.618.
- A humming bird flaps its wings up to 90 times a second (5,400 times a minute).
- Both green and black tea come from leaves of the same tree.
- Onions are part of the lily family.
- The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English alphabet.
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