- Mosquitoes prefer children to adults and blondes to brunettes.
- Greeks constructed aesthetically pleasing buildings and artworks based on the golden ratio of approximately 1.618.
- It is illegal in the United Kingdom to handle salmon in suspicious circumstances.
- A panda is not a bear and actually in the raccoon family. Koalas are marsupials.
- The word 'geometry' comes from the Greek words 'geo', meaning earth, and 'metria', meaning measure.
- Petrol has no specific freezing point (it can freezes at any temperature between -82 and -115C (-180 and -240F).
- Rhinoceros have 3 toes on each foot.
- Horses can't vomit.
- Sharks can sense a drop of blood from 4km (2.5miles) away.
- Wheat is the world's most widely grown plant.
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