- England's Stonehenge is over 5,000 years old.
- Banana plants are the largest plants without a woody stem (they belong to the same family as lilies, orchids and palms).
- Niagara Falls could fill 4,000 bathtubs every second.
- The flamingo can only eat when its head is upside down.
- Earth is the only known planet where fire occurs.
- A Galapagos tortoise can take up to three weeks to digest a meal.
- The word fortnight is a contraction of the 2 words 'fourteen nights'.
- Rice is the staple food for 50% of the worlds population.
- The study of insects is called entomology.
- There are 31,556,926 seconds in a year.
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