- Heat, not sunlight, ripens tomatoes.
- It is impossible to sneeze while you are sleeping.
- An AA battery with no charge remaining will not bounce when dropped.
- Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
- It is illegal to play annoying games in the street in the UK.
- Norway once knighted a penguin.
- Giant Pandas eat approximately 28 pounds of bamboo a day which is over 5 tons per year!.
- The most commonly used letter in the alphabet is E.
- Born in 1882, Emmy Noether was a German mathematician who made important contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics, described by Einstein as the most important woman in the history of mathematics.
- The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
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