- 45% of people use mouthwash everyday.
- Archimedes of Syracuse lived around the year 250 BC and played a large role in the history of geometry including a method for determining the volume of objects with irregular shapes.
- Honeybees navigate by using the Sun as a compass.
- An ostriches life span is 40-45 years.
- DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleicacid.
- Applesauce was the first food eaten in space by astronauts.
- Even with wings, humans would be unable to fly.
- When born a baby giraffe is 1.8m (6ft) tall.
- All of the cobble stones used to line the streets in New York were originally stones found in the hulls of Belgian ships ballast.
- In the U.S., there is an official rock, paper, scissors league.
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