- The only continent without reptiles or snakes is Antarctica.
- Macadamia nuts are toxic to dogs.
- Americans throw away 44 million newspapers a day.
- Bernhard Riemann was an influential German mathematician who contributed to differential geometry and analysis, paving the way for the development of general relativity by Albert Einstein.
- Brontophobia is the fear of thunderstorms.
- Commercial airplanes maintain a cabin pressure of about 6,400 feet (just over 1 mile) above sea level.
- Moths have white blood.
- Sea otters hold each other's paws while sleeping so they don't drift apart.
- The air signs are Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius.
- Wind doesn't make a sound until it blows against an object.
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