- A 1/4 of your bones are in your feet.
- The humming bird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
- House cats have 18 claws.
- The average person walks the equivalent of twice around the world in a lifetime.
- The longest possible eclipse of the sun is 7.31 minutes.
- A shrimp has 5 pairs of legs.
- The worlds smallest bird is the 'bee hummingbird' found in Cuba.
- There are more tigers owned by Americans than in the wild worldwide.
- The golden ratio of approximately 1.618 between two quantities such as lengths often appears in nature (tree branching, uncurling ferns, pine cone arrangements etc) and has been used throughout history to create aesthetically pleasing designs and art works such as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
- People don't sneeze in their sleep.
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