- Chameleons can move their eyes in two directions at the same time.
- Gorillas sleep 14 hours a day.
- The 'black box' that houses an airplanes voice recorder is actually orange so it can be more easily detected amid the debris of a plane crash.
- The diameter of the sun is 1,390,000km (865,000 miles).
- 80% of the world's rose species come from Asia.
- Jousting is the official sport of Maryland.
- Applesauce was the first food eaten in space by astronauts.
- A lions feed once every 3 to 4 days.
- The supersonic Concorde jet made its first trial flight on January 1st 1969.
- 75% of the U.S.'s tart cherries come from Michigan.
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