- The Amazon rainforest produces half the world's oxygen supply.
- The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year.
- Banana plants are the largest plants without a woody stem (they belong to the same family as lilies, orchids and palms).
- The elevator was invented in 1850.
- There are only 4 words in the English language which end in 'dous' (they are: hazardous, horrendous, stupendous and tremendous).
- Bees have 4 wings.
- When baby polar bear cubs are born they cannot see or hear for their first month.
- There is enough petrol in a full tank of a Jumbo Jet to drive the average car 4 times around the world.
- A group of frogs is called an army.
- Butterflies taste with their back feet.
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