- The average dog can understand over 150 words.
- Only pregnant females polar bears hibernate.
- Children grow faster during springtime.
- Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe (75%).
- Glaciers and ice sheets hold about 69 percent of the world’s freshwater.
- Some perfumes actually have whale poo in them.
- Much of the work done by Leibniz and Newton is based on theories by French philosopher Rene Descartes. As well as his many contributions to philosophy, Descartes also had a huge impact on mathematics, creating analytical geometry, developing a system that describes geometry using algebra, contributing to optics and much more.
- Iatrophobia is the fear of doctors.
- Akousticophobia is the fear of noises.
- No number from one to 999 includes the letter "a" in its word form.
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