- Sound travels 4.3 times faster through water than in air.
- The Statue of Liberty features 7 points in her crown- one for each of the continents.
- Camels have 3 eyelids to protect themselves from blowing sand.
- Alan Turing was a British mathematician and computer scientist who cracked German ciphers (codes) in the Second World War, contributed to mathematical logic and played an important role in the development of algorithms, artificial intelligence and the modern computer.
- An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
- Archimedes of Syracuse lived around the year 250 BC and among other things, developed a method for determining the volume of objects with irregular shapes.
- The US flag has 13 stripes (representing the original 13 states).
- Heavy raindrops are shaped like hamburger buns.
- Chicken drumsticks contain the least amount of meat on a chicken.
- Ripening bananas glow an intense blue under black light.
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