- You can cut a pie into 8 pieces with only three cuts.
- The longest alphabet has 74 letters.
- Humans shed and regrow outer skin cells every 27 days (almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime).
- The 50-star flag was designed for a high school class assignment.
- A chameleon's tongue is twice as long as its body.
- The first sport to be filmed was boxing in 1894.
- The familiar smell of rain is called petrichor.
- When born a baby giraffe is 1.8m (6ft) tall.
- Dragonflies have 6 legs but can't walk.
- Mosquitoes prefer children to adults and blondes to brunettes.
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