- The longest street in the world is Yonge street in Toronto Canada measuring 1,896 km (1,178 miles).
- The blueprints for the Eiffel Tower covered more than 14,000 square feet of drafting paper.
- The hydrochloric acid found in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve a nail.
- 90% of all volcanic activity occurs in the ocean.
- The spiral shapes of sunflowers follow the Fibonacci sequence.
- 22% of people skip lunch daily.
- The Eiffel Tower has 1,792 steps.
- Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.
- 11% of people are left handed.
- 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.
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