- Australia was originally called New Holland.
- In Venus, it snows metal.
- A chameleons tongue is twice the length of its body.
- When water freezes it expans by 9%.
- A snail can sleep for 3 years.
- Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today's measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.14).
- There are over 2,500 apple varieties grown in the U.S.
- Helminthophobia is the fear of worms.
- Fresh apples float because 25 percent of their volume is air.
- Isaac Newton discovered the laws of physics and brought together many important concepts of infinitesimal calculus.
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