- Mosquitoes prefer children to adults and blondes to brunettes.
- There are 2.5 million times more ants on earth than people (20 quadrillion of them).
- At birth dalmations are always white.
- Mathematical developments increased rapidly around the time of the Italian Renaissance in the 16th century and continued through the scientific revolution of the 17th and 18th centuries, becoming increasingly abstract in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Pop corn was invented by the Aztec Indians.
- The fastest fish in the sea is the swordfish and can reach up to speeds of 108kph (68mph, 59knots).
- Dark green lettuce leaves are more nutritious than lighter ones.
- 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.
- Snakes can see even with their eyes closed.
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