- The most common Spanish surname is Garcia.
- Only pregnant females polar bears hibernate.
- Dairy cows drink up to 50 gallons of water per day.
- Sound travels 10 times faster through granite than air.
- DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleicacid.
- Hawaii is the only US state that grows coffee.
- Americans eat 35,000 tons of pasta a year.
- Ancient Egyptians used geometry principles as far back as 3000 BC, using equations to approximate the area of circles among other formulas.
- The human brain takes up 2% of human body weight but uses 20% of its energy.
- John Cadbury founded the Cadbury chocolate company in England in 1842 producing the first chocolate bars.
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