- You can't tickle yourself.
- Termites eat through wood 2 times faster when listening to rock music.
- Much of the work done by Leibniz and Newton is based on theories by French philosopher Rene Descartes. As well as his many contributions to philosophy, Descartes also had a huge impact on mathematics, creating analytical geometry, developing a system that describes geometry using algebra, contributing to optics and much more.
- The lifespan of a taste bud is about ten days.
- Ants won't cross a chalk line.
- A panda is not a bear and actually in the raccoon family. Koalas are marsupials.
- Fresh apples float because 25 percent of their volume is air.
- Mosquitoes prefer to bite people with Type O blood.
- A squid has 10 tentacles.
- The national anthems of Japan, Jordan, and San Marino each have only 4 lines.
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