- The smallest country in the world takes up .2 square miles: Vatican City.
- The water in the Dead Sea is so salty that its easier to float than sink.
- Bats are the only mammals that fly.
- The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.
- Air's alchemy symbol is a triangle with a horizontal bar.
- Commercial airplanes maintain a cabin pressure of about 6,400 feet (just over 1 mile) above sea level.
- The first parachute jump from plane was in 1918 over France.
- People don't sneeze in their sleep.
- The first Burger King was opened in Florida Miami in 1954.
- The past tense for the English word 'dare' is 'durst'.
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