- The first drug that was sold as a water soluble tablet was aspirin in 1900.
- The US is the world's largest consumer of coffee.
- 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.
- To crack a whip the tip must be travelling faster than the speed of sound.
- It takes 110 silkworm cocoons to make an average tie.
- You can tell what a narwhal has eaten each year based on the layers of its tusk.
- Honey bees kill more people each year than snakes.
- In Venus, it snows metal.
- Tennis was originally played with bare hands.
- There are over 2,500 different types of mushrooms.
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