- Glass balls can bounce higher than rubber ones.
- One brow wrinkle is the result of 200,000 frowns.
- The Eifel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets.
- The primary reason for growing rice in flooded paddies is to drown the weeds surrounding the young seedlings (rice can grow in well drained areas).
- Catfish have over 100,000 taste buds.
- Halley's comet passes the Earth every 76 years (the next time it will return will be 2062).
- Employees of the Vatican pay no income tax.
- Hippopotamuses have killed more people in Africa than any other animal.
- The first hot air balloon passengers were a sheep, duck, and rooster.
- The average elephant produces 22kg (50 pounds) of dunn each day.
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