- The first sailing boats were built in Egypt.
- Ancient Romans thought strawberries could cure bad breath and chronic fainting.
- The African Rock Python can survive 2 years without eating.
- New York contains 920km (571miles) of shoreline.
- The tongue is the fastest healing part of a human body.
- Giant tortoises can live in captivity longer than any other animal.
- In the U.S., there is an official rock, paper, scissors league.
- Ornithophobia is the fear of birds.
- The odds of being struck by lightning are one in 15,300 in your lifetime.
- From space the brightest man made place is Las Vegas.
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