- Earth is the only planet not named after a god.
- An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
- The number 4 is the only number that has the same number of letters in it.
- You are 1% shorter in the evening than you are in the morning.
- Baby koalas are fed poo by their parents after they are born which helps them digest Eucalyptus leaves later in life.
- Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras lived around the year 500 BC and is known for his Pythagorean theorem relating to the three sides of a right angle triangle: a^2 + b^2 = c^2.
- Plastic bottles were first used for soft drinks in 1970.
- Owls can't move their eyes from side to side.
- There are 7 points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.
- The only one-syllabled U.S. state is Maine.
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