- Despite its hump, a camel has a straight spine.
- The US shreds 7,000 tons of worn out currency each year.
- Children grow faster during springtime.
- A Boeing 747 airliner holds 216,847 litres (57,285 gallons) of fuel.
- Strawberries taste sweeter at room temperature.
- Its physically impossible for pigs to look up at the sky.
- By age 60 most people would have lost half of their taste buds.
- Ants can lift 50 times their own weight.
- Indonesia is made up of more than 17,000 islands.
- Chinese mathematics developed around the 11th century BC and included important concepts related to negative numbers, decimals, algebra and geometry.
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