- In 1878 the first telephone book made contained only 50 names.
- The tongue is the fastest healing part of a human body.
- Your foot is the most common body part bitten by insects.
- The Australian aircraft carrier QANTAS stands for Queensland And Northern Territories Aerial Service.
- The moon is 27% the size of the Earth.
- You are 1% shorter in the evening than you are in the morning.
- Hawaii is the only U.S. state never to report a temperature of zero.
- The Olympic flag was designed in 1913.
- Honeybees navigate by using the Sun as a compass.
- You can buy square watermelons in Japan (developed to stack better in supermarkets).
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