- Paper money was first used in China.
- Bamboo makes up 99% of a panda's diet.
- 70% of all Irish barley grown goes towards the production of Guinness beer.
- 80% of the world's food crops are pollinated by insects.
- 90% people depend on alarm clocks to wake up.
- Crocodiles are responsible for over a 1,000 deaths each year by the Banks of the Nile river.
- Baby rattlesnakes are born in August and September.
- The most difficult-to-pronounce town is in Wales: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll llantysiliogogogoch.
- Diamonds are the hardest substance known to man.
- Acorns are poisonous to humans (if eaten it can cause damage to your kidneys).
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