- Giraffes can grow more than 18 feet tall.
- Instant coffee was invented in 1901.
- The fastest gust of wind ever recorded on Earth was 253 miles per hour.
- The first US coast to coast aeroplane flight occurred in 1911 and took 49 days.
- Over 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.
- Born in 1953, British mathematician Andrew Wiles is most famous for proving Fermat's Last Theorem.
- There are more skin cancer cases caused by tanning beds than there are lung cancer cases caused by smoking.
- An area of the Suns surface to the equivalent of a postage stamp would shine with the brightness of over 1,500,000 candles.
- Fresh apples float because 25 percent of their volume is air.
- A tsunami can travel as fast as a jet plane.
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