- There are over 97,000 km (60,000 miles) of blood vessels in the average person.
- New Zealands first hospital was opened in 1843.
- On your birthday you share it with 9 million others.
- A duck can't walk without bobbing its head.
- The number Pi (the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle) can't be expressed as a fraction, making it an irrational number. It never repeats and never ends when written as a decimal.
- Tug-of-war was an Olympic sport in the early 1900s.
- Coca Cola launched its 3rd product Sprite in 1961.
- Powerful earthquakes can make the Earth spin faster.
- It takes 1,100 watts to power a toaster.
- Months that start on a Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th.
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