- Banana plants are the largest plants without a woody stem (they belong to the same family as lilies, orchids and palms).
- Myrmecophobia is the fear of ants.
- The human body contains 96,000km(59,650miles) of blood vessels.
- That in the 17th century the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places (today to 1.2411 trillion).
- Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury.
- A cats urine glows under a blacklight.
- Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
- A Galapagos tortoise can take up to three weeks to digest a meal.
- You are always looking at your nose, your brain just chooses to ignore it.
- Your foot has 26 bones in it.
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