- The Statue of Liberty features 7 points in her crown- one for each of the continents.
- Acoustic Kitty was once a cat in training to be a spy.
- A group of whales is called a pod.
- In France, it's illegal for employers to send emails after work hours.
- The word denim comes from 'de Nimes' or from Nimes which is a town in France.
- Coca-Cola originally contained cocaine.
- Heat, not sunlight, ripens tomatoes.
- A horse's canter is a 3-beat gait. After the third beat all three legs are off the ground.
- The longest possible eclipse of the sun is 7.31 minutes.
- 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.
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