- A hard boiled eggs spin (uncooked or soft boiled don't).
- Worker ants may live for 7 years and the queen up to 15.
- The US shreds 7,000 tons of worn out currency each year.
- An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
- An ostrich can outrun a horse.
- The human brain takes up 2% of human body weight but uses 20% of its energy.
- Almonds are members of the peach family.
- All of the clocks in the movie 'Pulp Fiction' are fixed to 4:20.
- The golden ratio of approximately 1.618 between two quantities such as lengths often appears in nature (tree branching, uncurling ferns, pine cone arrangements etc) and has been used throughout history to create aesthetically pleasing designs and art works such as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
- Mosquitoes dislike citronella because it irritates their feet.
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