- The ball on top of a flag pole is called the truck.
- The Taj Mahal in India is made entirely out of marble.
- Jousting is the official sport of Maryland.
- Americans consume over 10 billion bowls of soup each year.
- Elephants can run up to 40kmh (25mph).
- 1 gigayear = 1,000,000,000,000 years.
- The word 'geometry' comes from the Greek words 'geo', meaning earth, and 'metria', meaning measure.
- The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
- Gorillas sleep 14 hours a day.
- A group of owls is called a parliament.
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