- Archimedes of Syracuse lived around the year 250 BC and among other things, developed a method for determining the volume of objects with irregular shapes.
- Buckingham Palace has over 600 rooms.
- There are 21.
- 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).
- In the 1800s, Cadbury created the first heart-shaped chocolate box.
- The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.
- The most difficult-to-pronounce town is in Wales: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll llantysiliogogogoch.
- Some perfumes actually have whale poo in them.
- Cats can't move their jaw sideways.
- The official state gem of Washington is petrified wood.
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