- The hydrochloric acid found in your stomach is strong enough to dissolve a nail.
- A garfish has green bones.
- Archimedes of Syracuse lived around the year 250 BC and among other things, developed a method for determining the volume of objects with irregular shapes.
- The oldest word in the English language is 'town'.
- It is illegal to sing off-key in North Carolina.
- The oldest cockroach fossils are over 280 million years old.
- The most fatal car accidents occur on Saturdays.
- The golden ratio of approximately 1.618 between two quantities such as lengths often appears in nature (tree branching, uncurling ferns, pine cone arrangements etc) and has been used throughout history to create aesthetically pleasing designs and art works such as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
- Flushable toilets were in use in ancient Rome.
- Orienteering originated from Sweden.
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