- Iceland consumes more Coca Cola than any other country.
- If you filled a matchbox with gold it could be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
- Flightless birds, like the penguin, could once fly.
- Wheat is the world's most widely grown plant.
- The 'black box' that houses an airplanes voice recorder is actually orange so it can be more easily detected amid the debris of a plane crash.
- John Kellogg invented corn flakes.
- Before 1850 golf balls were made of leather and were stuffed with feathers.
- Water can boil and freeze at the same time.
- Giant tortoises can live in captivity longer than any other animal.
- Astronauts can't burp in space.
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