- The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand.
- All scorpions glow.
- The supersonic Concorde jet made its first trial flight on January 1st 1969.
- Rice is the staple food for 50% of the worlds population.
- Honey bees kill more people each year than snakes.
- Each red blood cell lives an average of 4 months and travels between the lungs and other tissue 75,000 times before returning to bone marrow to die.
- Archimedes of Syracuse lived around the year 250 BC and among other things, developed a method for determining the volume of objects with irregular shapes.
- Wild cobras can live up to 20 years old.
- The game of basketball was first played using a soccer ball and two peach baskets.
- The official state gem of Washington is petrified wood.
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