- 56% of typing is completed by your left hand.
- Wooly mammoths grew as tall as 14 feet, weighing 10 tons. Mammoths used tusks for protection and to attract mates.
- From space the brightest man made place is Las Vegas.
- Polar bears have black skin.
- Archimedes of Syracuse lived around the year 250 BC and among other things, developed a method for determining the volume of objects with irregular shapes.
- Clothes dried outside smell better because of a process called photolysis (sunlight breaks down compounds that cause odor).
- Artificial Christmas trees have outsold real ones every year since 1991.
- Finland has the largest number of islands in the world (over 179,550).
- A species of moth has the best hearing in the world.
- A bear has 42 teeth.
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