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Hyenas have exceptional strength. Their heart is twice the size of a lion's heart.
25 tons of sea weed is needed to produce 15kg of iodine.
In 1979 two couples with their children escaped East Germany in a home made hot air balloon. The balloon climbed to 6000 feet and landed in West Germany. It was their second attempt, their first landed 200 yards short of the border.
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The world fastest unassisted swim across the English Channel is 6 hours and 58 minutes. The distance is approximately 33km (21 miles). Due to the currents, the actual swimming distance is much longer.
Elephants use their ears to cool down. The big skin surface and moves like a fan blade and can reduce their body temperature by about 10 degrees Celsius (20 Fahrenheit).
The heart of a giraffe weighs more than 10 kilograms (22lbs) and beats twice as fast as the human heart.
Is estimated that about 2000 different kinds of musical instruments exist in the world. There are four main categories woodwind, brass, string and percussion, with hundreds of instruments in each category.
French people eat 2 million eclairs every single day. It was invented in France where it was originally called "Pains à la duchesse."
The first cell phone was unveiled in 1973 by Motorola. It is now referred to as "the brick phone" because if it's large size.
The atmosphere on Mars is almost entirely made up of carbon dioxide.
The Bluetooth telecommunication protocol is named after Harald Bluetooth, the king of Denmark and Norway in the year 958. He unified the two countries, much like Bluetooth unifies devices.
Fashion designer Mary Quant is credited for inventing the miniskirt. She named it "Mini" after her favorite car the Mini Cooper.
Around 40 billion coffee cups are consumed each year. Despite the enormous number of coffee cups, tea is the #1 most consumed beverage.
The drawf planet Pluto was named by the suggestion of an 11 year old, Venetia Burney from Oxford England. Her suggestion was voted on unanimously by the observatory that discovered the dwarf planet.
It takes 100,000 years for a space ship traveling at the speed of light to travel our galaxy (the Milky Way) from one end to the other.
The first person to ride down Niagara falls in a barrel and survive was a 63 years old dance teacher from Pennsylvania named Annie Taylor. Before taking the plunge, she launched a test barrel with her cat inside. The cat survived.
