- Kangaroos can't walk backwards.
- Strawberries taste sweeter at room temperature.
- A platypus can eat its weight in worms every day.
- Whale songs can be used to map out the ocean floor.
- A flea can jump 350 times its body length.
- The equals sign (=) was invented in 1557 by a Welsh mathematician named Robert Recorde.
- As a world commodity coffee is second only to oil.
- Pinocchio is Italian for 'pine head'.
- It is impossible to sneeze while you are sleeping.
- Glaciers and ice sheets hold about 69 percent of the world’s freshwater.
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