- Americans throw away 44 million newspapers a day.
- A rat can tread water for 3 days.
- The word fortnight is a contraction of the 2 words 'fourteen nights'.
- Artificial Christmas trees have outsold real ones every year since 1991.
- It is believed that Ancient Egyptians used complex mathematics such as algebra, arithmetic and geometry as far back as 3000 BC, such as equations to approximate the area of circles.
- According to the old English time system a moment is 1 and a half minutes.
- More people are killed by hippopotamuses then by lions, elephants and water buffalos combined.
- October the 10th is national metric day.
- Americas top selling ice cream flavour is vanilla.
- There is a pink lake in Australia named Lake Hillier.
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