- Strawberries contain more vitamin C than oranges.
- Some perfumes actually have whale poo in them.
- The subject of the first printed book in England was about chess.
- Everyday is a holiday somewhere in the world.
- Miami installed the first ATM for inline skaters.
- The spiral shapes of sunflowers follow the Fibonacci sequence.
- Tachophobia is the fear of speed.
- Along with arithmetic, geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics.
- The word 'almost' is the longest word spelt alphabetically.
- The color of a chile pepper is no indication of its heat (usually the smaller the the hotter).
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