- Greeks constructed aesthetically pleasing buildings and artworks based on the golden ratio of approximately 1.618.
- An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
- Fire usually moves faster uphill than downhill.
- The first metered taxi was introduced in 1907.
- The Earth weighs 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
- Golf was the first sport to be played on the moon.
- There are 70 million sheep in New Zealand (with 4 million people).
- The spikes of a newborn hedgehog begin to appear within 24 hours.
- Deers don't like hay.
- The Nobel Peace Prize is named for Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.
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