- The vocabulary of the average person is between 5,000 to 6,000 words.
- Water can boil and freeze at the same time.
- There are 2,598,960 possible hands in a 5 card poker game.
- Greeks constructed aesthetically pleasing buildings and artworks based on the golden ratio of approximately 1.618.
- A woodpecker can peck 20 times a second.
- Lizards communicate by doing push-ups.
- Strawberries taste sweeter at room temperature.
- Italy and France produce over 40% of all wine.
- Blueberries are one of the only natural foods that are truly blue in color.
- In 1878 the first telephone book made contained only 50 names.
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