- The most difficult-to-pronounce town is in Wales: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyll llantysiliogogogoch.
- Snails take the longest naps with some lasting as long as three years.
- Koalas sleep around 18 hours a day.
- Christmas trees originated from Germany.
- The elevator was invented in 1850.
- Dreamt is the only word that ends in mt.
- Gorillas burp when they are happy.
- Ketchup was once sold as a medicine.
- Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras lived around the year 500 BC and is known for his Pythagorean theorem relating to the three sides of a right angle triangle: a^2 + b^2 = c^2.
- Hippopotamuses are born under water.
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