- Onions are part of the lily family.
- You take over 23,000 breaths everyday.
- The number 1 cause of blindness in the US is diabetes.
- An electric eel can release a charge powerful enough to start 50 cars.
- Dogs sweat through the pads on their feet.
- Human eyes have over two million working parts.
- Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa (better known as Fibonacci) lived between the years 1170 and 1250 and is best known today for Fibonacci numbers, the number sequence named after him. Fibonacci introduced the number sequence to Western Europe in his book 'Liber Abaci' after they had been described earlier by Indian mathematicians.
- The US flag has 13 stripes (representing the original 13 states).
- The bumblebee bat weighs less than a penny.
- A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
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