- the word typewriter is the longest word that can be typed using only the top row of a keyboard.
- The opposite of a 'vacuum' is a 'plenum'.
- Greeks constructed aesthetically pleasing buildings and artworks based on the golden ratio of approximately 1.618.
- Mistletoe is evergreen -even after a tree's leaves have fallen, it stays green.
- Every year the sun loses 360 million tons.
- 60 cows can produce a ton of milk each day.
- Asparagus can grow up to 7 inches in a day.
- Gunpowder is formed by mixing charcoal, saltpetre and sulphur.
- There is a pink lake in Australia named Lake Hillier.
- The longest street in the world is Yonge street in Toronto Canada measuring 1,896 km (1,178 miles).
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