- The rarest type of diamond is green.
- A flipped coin is more likely to land on the side it started on.
- An elephant's trunk can hold over 5 litres of water.
- Less than 20% of shark attacks are fatal.
- 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).
- The human body has over 600 muscles (40% of the bodys weight).
- The Statue of Liberty features 7 points in her crown- one for each of the continents.
- The word 'almost' is the longest in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
- Baboons were once trained by Egyptians to wait on tables.
- A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
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