- It takes around 200 muscles to take a step.
- Mosquitoes prefer children to adults and blondes to brunettes.
- Honeybees navigate by using the Sun as a compass.
- Phantom rain are raindrops that never reach the ground.
- The statue of Liberty's mouth is 3 feet wide.
- The word 'Strengths' is the longest word in the English language with just one vowel.
- The game of basketball was first played using a soccer ball and two peach baskets.
- Clothes dried outside smell better because of a process called photolysis (sunlight breaks down compounds that cause odor).
- Women were not allowed to vote in France until 1944.
- Rio de Janeiro translates to river of January.
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