- In a deck of cards the king of hearts is the only king without a moustache.
- The name of the popular search engine 'Google' came from a misspelling of the word 'googol', which is a very large number (the number one followed by one hundred zeros to be exact).
- Some fish cough. Really.
- The softest known mineral is talc.
- Denver sits at 5,280 feet elevation (1 mile above sea level).
- Giraffes can grow more than 18 feet tall.
- 11% of people are left handed.
- 8.5 million tons of water evaporates from the Dead Sea every day.
- 'underground' is the only word that begins and ends with the letters 'und'.
- Flys always launch backwards for a quick getaway.
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