- Recycling one glass jar saves enough energy to watch TV for 3 hours.
- All of the clocks in the movie 'Pulp Fiction' are fixed to 4:20.
- Elephants can smell water from miles away.
- Australia has 10,685 beaches; you could visit a new beach every day for more than 29 years.
- A platypus can eat its weight in worms every day.
- Mathematical developments increased rapidly around the time of the Italian Renaissance in the 16th century and continued through the scientific revolution of the 17th and 18th centuries, becoming increasingly abstract in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- You are always looking at your nose, your brain just chooses to ignore it.
- In the 17th century Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler made important discoveries relating to planetary motion and orbits.
- Gatophobia is the fear of cats.
- The Dead Sea is actually an inland lake.
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