- Raindrops are not tear shaped (they more resemble the shape of a tiny hamburger bun).
- Your foot has 26 bones in it.
- The numerical digits we use today such as 1, 2 and 3 are based on the Hindu-Arabic numeral system developed over 1000 years ago.
- The average cat can jump 5 times as high as its tail is long.
- When born a baby giraffe is 1.8m (6ft) tall.
- Half of all crimes are committed by people under the age of 18.
- The diameter of the sun is 1,390,000km (865,000 miles).
- Sponges hold more cold water than hot.
- That the first MTV video played was 'Video killed the radio star' by the Buggles.
- A humming bird flaps its wings up to 90 times a second (5,400 times a minute).
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