- It takes 50 minutes to soft boil and two hours to hard boil an ostrich egg.
- There are over 15,000 different kinds of rice.
- There is a pink lake in Australia named Lake Hillier.
- Most of the Vitamin C found in fruits is in the skin.
- Wooly mammoths grew as tall as 14 feet, weighing 10 tons. Mammoths used tusks for protection and to attract mates.
- If you add up all the numbers from 1 to 100 consecutively (1 + 2 + 3...) it totals 5050.
- Cotton can catch fire with enough super glue applied.
- Over 550 hot dogs are eaten every second in the United States.
- Flushable toilets were in use in ancient Rome.
- Shakespeare invented the words 'assassination' and 'bump'.
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