- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- The primary reason for growing rice in flooded paddies is to drown the weeds surrounding the young seedlings (rice can grow in well drained areas).
- The Eiffel Tower is over 300m (984 ft) tall.
- A duck can't walk without bobbing its head.
- At one time, serving ice cream on cherry pie in Kansas was prohibited.
- The average shower temperature is 38C (101F).
- The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the English alphabet.
- The average cow produces 40 glasses of milk a day.
- Air's alchemy symbol is a triangle with a horizontal bar.
- The softest known mineral is talc.
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