- Rainbows can only be seen in the morning or late afternoon (the sun needs to be less than 40 above the horizon).
- Pandas spend 12 hours a day eating bamboo.
- 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).
- Peanut butter can be converted into diamonds.
- It takes 5 years for an oyster to produce a medium sized pearl.
- That after petrol, coffee is the largest item bought and sold.
- Giraffes can grow more than 18 feet tall.
- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
- 80% of the world's food crops are pollinated by insects.
- 1 out of every 8 letters written is an e.
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