- The coloured part of your eye is called the iris.
- The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.
- Mangoes have noses.
- 20% of all the oxygen you breathe is used by your brain.
- The fastest insect is the Australian dragon fly (its top speed is 57 km/h (35mp/h)).
- Deers don't like hay.
- Archimedes of Syracuse lived around the year 250 BC and among other things, developed a method for determining the volume of objects with irregular shapes.
- More than 75% of all countries are north of the equator.
- Hypnotism is banned in public schools in San Diego (U.S.).
- The winter of 1932 was so cold that Niagara Falls froze over completely.
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