- The US is the world's largest consumer of coffee.
- Greek mathematics developed from around the 7th century BC, producing many important theories thanks to great mathematicians such as Pythagoras, Euclid and Archimedes.
- There are 2 credit cards for every person in the US.
- Scotland has 421 words for snow.
- Diamonds are the hardest substance known to man.
- Iceland consumes more Coca Cola than any other country.
- The first city to mint its own gold coins was Florence, Italy in 1252.
- 1 square inch of human skin contains 625 sweat glands.
- When a member of a whale group is sick or injured, other whales will push it up to the surface of the water to help it breathe.
- Iatrophobia is the fear of doctors.
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