- Lions in the wild usually makes no more than 20 kills a year.
- Sound travels 4.3 times faster through water than in air.
- Cars were first started with ignition keys in 1949.
- 3 teaspoons make up 1 tablespoon.
- Glaciers and ice sheets hold about 69 percent of the world’s freshwater.
- 80% of the world's rose species come from Asia.
- Wheat is the world's most widely grown plant.
- The strike note of the Liberty Bell is E flat.
- If you filled a matchbox with gold it could be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
- You take over 23,000 breaths everyday.
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