- Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
- Cheetahs can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h (43mp/h) in 3 seconds.
- Americas top selling ice cream flavour is vanilla.
- A standard 747 jumbo jet has 420 seats.
- Clouds fly higher during the day than the night.
- The word 'uncopyrightable' is the is the only 15 letter word that can be spelled without repeating any letter.
- MTV (Music Television) made its debut at 12:01 a.m. August 1st 1981 (the first music video shown 'Video killed the radio star' by the Buggles).
- The total mass of ants on the planet would actually outweigh all of the world’s wild birds and mammals.
- Emus can't walk backwards.
- 72% of people eavesdrop.
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