- VHS stands for Video Home System.
- There are over 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
- Born in France, Pierre de Fermat was an amateur mathematician who is best known for Fermat's Last Theorem.
- A bumble bee flaps its wings at 160 times a second.
- Adult humans are the only mammal that can't breathe and swallow at the same time.
- Mosquitoes prefer children to adults and blondes to brunettes.
- It takes 1,100 watts to power a toaster.
- The yo-yo was originally used as a weapon for hunting the in the Philippines.
- Each year, the Moon moves away from Earth by about four centimeters.
- The total mass of ants on the planet would actually outweigh all of the world’s wild birds and mammals.
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