- In Switzerland, it is illegal to own only one guinea pig because they are prone to loneliness.
- DFW Airport in Texas is larger than the island of Manhattan.
- Brazil is named after a tree.
- The hamburger was invented in 1900.
- Catfish have over 100,000 taste buds.
- Bees and house flies flap their wings 200 times a second.
- Orange Fanta is the 3rd largest selling soft drink in the world.
- The 'you are here' arrow on maps is called an ideo locator.
- A man once ate an entire airplaneu2014it took him 2 years.
- 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.
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