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Annually, the amount of garbage dumped in the world's oceans is three times the weight of fish that are caught from the ocean.

Titanic was sailing at 22 knots when she hit the iceberg.

Our hearing is so sensitive that it can distinguish between hundreds of thousands of different sounds.

Did you know that a crow can be taught to talk like a parrot.

The smallest bone is the stirrup, deep in the ear. It is hardly larger than a grain of rice.

Oysters can change from one gender to another and back to origin.

Average life span of a major league baseball is 7 pitches.

The Australian Aborigines use the curved type of boomerang as a toy, and the straight one as a weapon.

The trumpets blown in certain religious services by the Lamas of Bhutan are made from human thighbones.

When you run, only 25% of the chemical energy in your muscles is converted into kinetic energy, and the rest changes into heat energy.