- Brazil borders every country in South America except Chile and Ecuador.
- The sun is 330,330 times larger than the Earth.
- Coffee is the most popular beverage worldwide with over 400 billion cups consumed each year.
- The average hen lays 228 eggs a year.
- The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.
- Humans can encourage precipitation with cloud seeding.
- The subject of the first printed book in England was about chess.
- A platypus can eat its weight in worms every day.
- Banana plants can grow as high as 6 meters (20 feet) tall.
- 45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star.
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