- You can buy square watermelons in Japan (developed to stack better in supermarkets).
- Jousting is the official sport of Maryland.
- Modern day geometry has made developments in a number of areas, including those that make use of the raw computing power of today's computers.
- The bones of a pigeon weigh less than its feathers.
- A female ferret is called a jill.
- The first city to mint its own gold coins was Florence, Italy in 1252.
- You can tell a turtle's gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt and females hiss.
- A group of jellyfish is called a smack.
- The hyoid bone in your throat is the only bone in your body not attached to any other.
- A car travelling at 80kph (50mph) uses half its fuel to overcome wind resistance.
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