- Heat, not sunlight, ripens tomatoes.
- Dogs sweat through the pads on their feet.
- Ostriches have a powerful immune system.
- The dishwasher was invented in 1889.
- Banana plants can grow as high as 6 meters (20 feet) tall.
- The odds of being struck by lightning are 600,000 to 1.
- Sound travels 4.3 times faster through water than in air.
- 'Babe' was played by over 50 pigs.
- A duck can't walk without bobbing its head.
- An area of the Suns surface to the equivalent of a postage stamp would shine with the brightness of over 1,500,000 candles.
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