- Glaciers and ice sheets hold about 69 percent of the world’s freshwater.
- India has the most post offices than any other country (over 100,000).
- Only male turkeys gobble.
- Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today's measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.14).
- Monopoly is the most played board game in the world.
- The fastest insect is the Australian dragon fly (its top speed is 57 km/h (35mp/h)).
- The smallest country in the world takes up .2 square miles: Vatican City.
- Ablutophobia is the fear of bathing.
- A pumpkin really is a fruit.
- Americans consume over 10 billion bowls of soup each year.
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