When water freezes it expands by 10%.
Four out of five people over 100 years old are women.
Approximately one fifth of all the publications from Japan are comic books.
Cold weather makes fingernails grow faster.
It is a fact that the first game of chess has been traced back to have originated in India.
The largest milk producing country by volume in the whole world is India.
For a butterfly to fly it must have a body temperature of no less than 86 degrees fahrenheit or 30 degrees celsius.
Giraffes can go without water longer than a camel.
Each year Disneyland uses over 5,000 gallons of paint to maintain the clean appearance of the park.
The border between Canada and the U.S. is the world's longest frontier. It stretches 3,987 miles (6,416 km).
The smallest island with country status is Pitcairn in Polynesia, at just 1.75 square miles.
There are no permanent rivers in Saudi Arabia.
All gondolas in Venice, Italy must be painted black, unless they belong to a high official.
The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 World's Fair.
India is the largest democracy in the world.
80% of the flowers in the Australian rainforests are not found anywhere else in the world.
Orcas (killer whales), when traveling in groups, breathe in unison.
For more than 3,000 years, Carpenter ants have been used to close wounds in India, Asia and South America.
Not all polar bears hibernate; only pregnant females polar bears do.
The American President Abraham Lincoln was a great lover of Shakespeare’s plays and frequently recited from them to his friends. His assassin, John Wilkes Booth was a famous Shakespearean actor.
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