- Mangos are related to cashews and pistachios.
- The smallest ten prime numbers are: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23 and 29.
- Americas top selling ice cream flavour is vanilla.
- 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.
- Japan is the largest exporter of frog legs.
- Platypuses are venomous.
- Diamonds mined in Brazil are much harder than those found in Africa.
- Room temperature is defined as between 20 to 25C (68 to 77F).
- There are over 900 species of bats.
- There is a museum of strawberries in Belgium.
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