- The fire hydrant patent was ironically destroyed in a fire.
- A bumble bee flaps its wings at 160 times a second.
- There is enough petrol in a full tank of a Jumbo Jet to drive the average car 4 times around the world.
- Mangoes have noses.
- Humans shed and regrow outer skin cells every 27 days (almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime).
- The fortune cookie was invented in San Francisco.
- Jamaica has 120 rivers.
- Pez was invented in 1927.
- Panda bears eat up to 16 hours a day.
- There are over 225,000 trees in New York's Central Park.
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