- The Nile river flows North.
- Sea otters hold each other's paws while sleeping so they don't drift apart.
- Australia is the only country that is also a continent.
- Christmas trees originated from Germany.
- Emus can't walk backwards.
- Bananas grow pointing upwards.
- The word 'lethologica' describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
- More than 75% of all countries are north of the equator.
- The name of the popular search engine 'Google' came from a misspelling of the word 'googol', which is a very large number (the number one followed by one hundred zeros to be exact).
- Brontology is the study of thunder.
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