- Brazil covers 50% of the South American continent.
- Hippopotamus milk is pink.
- The WD in WD-40 stands for Water Displacer.
- Flightless birds, like the penguin, could once fly.
- Gold never erodes.
- Artificial Christmas trees have outsold real ones every year since 1991.
- Gunpowder is formed by mixing charcoal, saltpetre and sulphur.
- The word 'almost' is the longest word spelt alphabetically.
- New born babies have 350 bones (by age 5 the amount of bones merges to 206).
- The Australian aircraft carrier QANTAS stands for Queensland And Northern Territories Aerial Service.
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