- Squirrels can climb trees faster than they can run on the ground.
- You can't hum while plugging your nose.
- The numerical digits we use today such as 1, 2 and 3 are based on the Hindu-Arabic numeral system developed over 1000 years ago.
- A pelican can hold more food in its beak than its belly.
- The number of times a cricket chirps in 15 seconds, plus 37, will give you the current air temperature.
- The longest attack of hiccups lasted 68 years.
- Elvis Presley made only 1 television commercial.
- The Dead Sea is actually an inland lake.
- The supersonic Concorde jet made its first trial flight on January 1st 1969.
- March 14 is 'save a spider day'.
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