- Hippopotamuses are born under water.
- Bananas grow pointing upwards.
- Rain contains vitamin B12.
- Red blood cells are produced in bone marrow.
- Chocolate manufacturers use 40% of the world's almonds.
- The typewriter was invented in 1829.
- The most difficult-to-pronounce town is in Wales: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll llantysiliogogogoch.
- A woodpecker can peck 20 times a second.
- Forty is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order.
- At birth dalmations are always white.
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