- Agoraphobia is the fear of wide open spaces.
- Ice skating rinks always go counter clock wise (for the majority of people that are right handed needing to hang onto the rail).
- Tennis was originally played with bare hands.
- Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today's measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.14).
- India has over 50 million monkeys.
- Hummingbirds can't walk.
- Some fish cough. Really.
- Kangaroos can jump 30 feet.
- The diameter of Earth is 12,756 km (7,926 miles).
- Cheerios cereal was originally called Cheerioats.
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