- Russia and the United States of America are less than 3 miles apart.
- Banana trees are actually herbs.
- A blue whale can go up to 6 months without eating.
- There are 2,598,960 possible hands in a 5 card poker game.
- A compass needle does not point directly north.
- Domestic cats dislike citrus scents.
- The human body creates 2,500,000 new red blood cells every second.
- The spiral shapes of sunflowers follow the Fibonacci sequence.
- The rarest type of diamond is green.
- The first paperback book was printed by Penguin Publishing in 1935.
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