- Not all your taste buds are on our tongue (10% are on the insides of you cheeks).
- A 15th anniversary is called a quindecennial.
- The odds of being struck by lightning are one in 15,300 in your lifetime.
- The oldest exposed surface on Earth is New Zealand's south island.
- The average life span of a mosquito is 2 weeks.
- Owls can't move their eyes from side to side.
- There are 7 points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.
- The Nobel Peace Prize is named for Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite.
- The first train reached a top speed of only 8 kmh (5 mph).
- There are over 900,000 known species of insects.
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