- The longest possible eclipse of the sun is 7.31 minutes.
- A deck of cards should be shuffled at least 7 times before playing.
- Some perfumes actually have whale poo in them.
- Tiger Woods' real first name is Eldrick.
- There are 2 chickens for every person.
- A Boeing 747 airliner holds 216,847 litres (57,285 gallons) of fuel.
- After you've eaten it takes approximately 12 hours for food to entirely digest.
- The original name of Bank of America was Bank of Italy.
- The word fortnight is a contraction of the 2 words 'fourteen nights'.
- Mistletoe is evergreen -even after a tree's leaves have fallen, it stays green.
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