- The woodpecker can hammer wood up to 16 times per second.
- There are 2,598,960 possible hands in a 5 card poker game.
- The game of basketball was first played using a soccer ball and two peach baskets.
- Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
- Blue and white are the most common school colors.
- About 1/3 of your taste buds are numbed while flying.
- England's first great industry was wool.
- At one time, serving ice cream on cherry pie in Kansas was prohibited.
- The Empire State Building in New York weighs over 365,000 tons.
- Every minute about a billion tons of water falls on Earth.
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