- The Cambodian alphabet has 74 letters.
- The first sailing boats were built in Egypt.
- Bees and house flies flap their wings 200 times a second.
- 9% of people skip breakfast daily.
- Brazil accounts for 1/3 of the world's coffee production.
- A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
- Giraffes can't cough.
- Hawaii is the only U.S. state never to report a temperature of zero.
- Raindrops are not tear shaped (they more resemble the shape of a tiny hamburger bun).
- German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz lived between 1646 and 1716, developing important calculus concepts and mathematical notation practices.
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