- Snakes can't bite in rivers or swamps (they would drown otherwise).
- The name of the popular search engine 'Google' came from a misspelling of the word 'googol', which is a very large number (the number one followed by one hundred zeros to be exact).
- Children grow faster during springtime.
- $30 of raw popcorn translates into $3,000 in sales at movie theaters.
- Banana trees are actually herbs.
- Originally in 1886 Coca Cola was introduced as an 'intellectual beverage' to boost brain power.
- The average golf ball has 336 dimples.
- A connected bunch of bananas is called a hand and individual bananas are called fingers.
- A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
- A duck can't walk without bobbing its head.
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