- The oldest word in the English language is 'town'.
- 59% of people say that they're average looking.
- The tongue is the fastest healing part of a human body.
- Cats can hear ultrasound.
- Tug-of-war was an Olympic sport in the early 1900s.
- Squids can have eyes the size of a volleyball.
- Dolphins can hear underwater sounds from 24km (15miles) away.
- 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 equals sign (=) was invented in 1557 by a Welsh mathematician named Robert Recorde.
- Golf was the first sport to be played on the moon.
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