- The most difficult-to-pronounce town is in Wales: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll llantysiliogogogoch.
- There are 70 million sheep in New Zealand (with 4 million people).
- You can't tickle yourself.
- Born in 1882, Emmy Noether was a German mathematician who made important contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics, described by Einstein as the most important woman in the history of mathematics.
- A group of owls is called a parliament.
- A species of moth has the best hearing in the world.
- Germany borders 9 other countries.
- Mount Everest is bigger now than the last time it was measured.
- Modern mathematics has advanced greatly thanks to the incredible computing power of today's computers.
- Sound travels 10 times faster through granite than air.
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