The word old English word 'juke' meaning dancing lends its name to the juke box.
The subject of the first printed book in England was about chess.
New York's Central Park was opened in 1876.
The water in the Dead Sea is so salty that its easier to float than sink.
1 gigayear = 1,000,000,000,000 years.
Icelandic phone books are listed by first names (not surnames).
Dirty snow melts quicker than clean snow.
The largest exporter of sugar is Cuba.
There are no rivers in Saudi Arabia.
The Dead Sea is actually an inland lake.
Crocodiles are responsible for over a 1,000 deaths each year by the Banks of the Nile river
Crocodiles swallow rocks to help them dive deeper
An elephant's trunk can hold over 5 litres of water
Bull's can run faster uphill than down
A shark's teeth are literally as hard as steel
A moth has no stomach.
Grasshoppers have white blood.
It takes 4 hours to hardboil an ostrich egg.
New York was once called New Amsterdam.
There is 200 times more gold in the world's oceans than has been mined.
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