- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
- Koalas sleep around 18 hours a day.
- 45% of people use mouthwash everyday.
- MasterCard was originally called MasterCharge.
- In eastern Africa you can buy beer brewed from bananas.
- Your head contains 22 bones.
- 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).
- Adults laugh only about 15 to 100 times a day, while preschoolers laugh an average of 300 times a day.
- Ablutophobia is the fear of bathing.
- When lightning strikes it can reach up to 30,000 degrees celsius (54,000 degrees fahrenheit).
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