- The first drug that was sold as a water soluble tablet was aspirin in 1900.
- Herpetophobia is the fear of reptiles.
- Along with arithmetic, geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics.
- A connected bunch of bananas is called a hand and individual bananas are called fingers.
- The odds of being struck by lightning are 600,000 to 1.
- A hummingbird's heart beats at over a 1,000 times a minute.
- Elephants are afraid of bees.
- Ostrich meat is the leanest of all red meats.
- Different names for the number 0 include zero, nought, naught, nil, zilch and zip.
- Jellyfish have been on Earth for over 650 million years.
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