- A violin contains over 70 separate pieces of wood.
- A standard 747 jumbo jet has 420 seats.
- Banana trees are actually herbs.
- Alaska is the only state that can be typed on one row of keys.
- The fear of vegetables is called lachanophobia.
- Coffee trees produce its first full crop after 5 years old.
- It takes 1,100 watts to power a toaster.
- All the blinking in one day equates to having your eyes closed for 30 minutes.
- The word fortnight is a contraction of the 2 words 'fourteen nights'.
- Born in 1777, German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss contributed brilliant work in geometry, statistics, number theories, algebra and much more.
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