- A group of porcupines is called a prickle.
- If you filled a matchbox with gold it could be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
- 20% of all the oxygen you breathe is used by your brain.
- Plastic bottles were first used for soft drinks in 1970.
- An office desk has 400 times more bacteria than a toilet.
- The first sailing boats were built in Egypt.
- March 14 is 'save a spider day'.
- Squirrels lose more than half of the nuts they hide.
- When lightning strikes it can reach up to 30,000 degrees celsius (54,000 degrees fahrenheit).
- Scissors were most likely invented ancient Egypt.
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