- A 15th anniversary is called a quindecennial.
- The official state gem of Washington is petrified wood.
- The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturdays.
- Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler was probably the most influential mathematician of the 18th century, making discoveries in graph theory and introducing many modern mathematical words and notations among other things.
- You burn more calories sleeping than watching TV.
- Toads only eat moving prey.
- Mercury and Venus are the only planets in our solar system with no moon.
- Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine.
- A group of geese is called a gaggle.
- A lobsters blood is colorless but when exposed to oxygen it turns blue.
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