- India has over 50 million monkeys.
- An elephant's trunk can hold over 5 litres of water.
- The Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters.
- Born in 1882, Emmy Noether was a German mathematician who made important contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics, described by Einstein as the most important woman in the history of mathematics.
- Earth's sky is purple, our eyes just see it as blue.
- The past tense for the English word 'dare' is 'durst'.
- Mount Everest is 8.9km (5.5 miles) high.
- The movie Pulp Fiction cost $8 million to make with $5 million going towards actor's salaries.
- Reindeer like bananas.
- It takes 50 minutes to soft boil and two hours to hard boil an ostrich egg.
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