- Coffee represents 75% of all the caffeine consumed in the US.
- Mosquitoes prefer children to adults and blondes to brunettes.
- Police dogs are trained to respond to commands in foreign languages (usually German or Hungarian).
- New Zealands first hospital was opened in 1843.
- Ocean algae produces about 75 percent of the world's oxygen.
- Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
- New born babies have 350 bones (by age 5 the amount of bones merges to 206).
- There are over 690 known species of bats.
- In 1872 Yellowstone in the US was the world's first national park.
- Women were not allowed to vote in France until 1944.
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