- Britain was the first country to use postage stamps.
- Venetian blinds were invented in Japan.
- There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia.
- You blink over 4 million times a year.
- Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today's measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.14).
- Americans throw away 44 million newspapers a day.
- The average person consumes over a ton of food and drink each year.
- The subject of the first printed book in England was about chess.
- 44% of people have broken a bone.
- A rat can tread water for 3 days.
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