- More people die from falling coconuts then from shark attacks.
- The average person takes 23,000 breaths a day.
- Oxygen supply influences the color of a fire's flame.
- The world's knowledge is growing so fast that 90% of what we will know in 50 years time will be discovered in those 50 years.
- The subject of the first printed book in England was about chess.
- African Grey Parrots have vocabularies of over 200 words.
- At the deepest point in the ocean, the water pressure is equivalent to having about 50 jumbo jets piled on top of you.
- Bees and house flies flap their wings 200 times a second.
- A standard 747 jumbo jet has 420 seats.
- The life span of a house fly is between 10 to 25 days.
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