- You're more likely to get stung by a bee on a windy day than any other.
- American Black bears are not just black but include bears of varying colors including blonde, cinnamon, brown, white and even silver-blue.
- Mount Everest is 8.9km (5.5 miles) high.
- Every square inch of the human body has an average of 32 million bacteria on it.
- The spikes of a newborn hedgehog begin to appear within 24 hours.
- It was once illegal to slam your car door in Switzerland.
- It is illegal in the United Kingdom to handle salmon in suspicious circumstances.
- There are over 100,000 different species of butterflies.
- 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).
- The skeleton of an African elephant accounts for about 15% of its body weight.
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