- Dolphins are unable to smell.
- A camel can shut its nostrils during a desert sandstorm.
- On the average there are 8 peas in a pod.
- Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.
- The primary reason for growing rice in flooded paddies is to drown the weeds surrounding the young seedlings (rice can grow in well drained areas).
- There is a 50% chance that in a group of 23 people, two will share the same birthday. In a group of 367 people, it is a 100% chance. But only 70 people are required for a 99.9% chance.
- The blueprints for the Eiffel Tower covered more than 14,000 square feet of drafting paper.
- There are more chickens than people.
- The oldest word in the English language is 'town'.
- A soap bubble is 10,000 times thinner than the average human hair.
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