- Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
- Christmas trees originated from Germany.
- Volleyball was invented in 1895.
- Einstein slept 10 hours a night.
- The first Lifesaver flavor was peppermint.
- A giraffe can go longer without water than a camel.
- An astronaut can be up to 2 inches taller returning from space (the cartilage disks in the spine expand in the absence of gravity).
- It takes 1 week to make a jelly bean.
- The national animal of Scotland is the Unicorn.
- The spiral shapes of sunflowers follow the Fibonacci sequence.
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