- A third of Americans flush the toilet while they're still sitting on it.
- Hilton was the first international hotel chain.
- Ripening bananas glow an intense blue under black light.
- Cats have over 100 vocal chords.
- In 1872 Yellowstone in the US was the world's first national park.
- Alan Turing was a British mathematician and computer scientist who cracked German ciphers (codes) in the Second World War, contributed to mathematical logic and played an important role in the development of algorithms, artificial intelligence and the modern computer.
- Jellyfish have been on Earth for over 650 million years.
- All scorpions glow.
- A connected bunch of bananas is called a hand and individual bananas are called fingers.
- Jack is the most common name in nursery rhymes.
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