- Ketchup was once sold as a medicine.
- A violin contains over 70 separate pieces of wood.
- Mathematical developments increased rapidly around the time of the Italian Renaissance in the 16th century and continued through the scientific revolution of the 17th and 18th centuries, becoming increasingly abstract in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
- Tree hugging is forbidden in china.
- A soap bubble is 10,000 times thinner than the average human hair.
- China manufacturers 70% of the worlds toys.
- Rio de Janeiro translates to river of January.
- Rain contains vitamin B12.
- India has over 50 million monkeys.
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