- 45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star.
- A bolt of lightning can reach roughly 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
- The 50-star flag was designed for a high school class assignment.
- The Cambodian alphabet has 74 letters.
- You burn more calories sleeping than watching TV.
- DVDs are physically the same size as a CDs but can store 13 times more data.
- Americas top selling ice cream flavour is vanilla.
- England's first great industry was wool.
- The fastest insect is the Australian dragon fly (its top speed is 57 km/h (35mp/h)).
- You might have heard the word 'infinity' before or seen its symbol that looks like the number 8 placed on its side. Infinity means a limitless quantity or something that goes on forever. While it's not really a number like 1, 2 or 3, infinity is often used in math as part of equations and formulas.
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