Enjoy these fun, random, and fascinating facts with the whole family (or like us keep some up your sleeve to impress friends at your next dinner party!). Every day’s a school day…

You speak about 4,800 words a day

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Pencil lead AND diamonds are made of the same thing. Both are pure carbon just formed under different pressures and temperatures

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Grasshoppers existed before dinosaurs

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Fruit flies were the first living creatures to be sent into space

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The opposite sides fo the dice always add up to seven

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Apples, peaches and raspberries are all members of the rose family

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Your foot and your forearm are exactly the same length

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If you make a mistake writing with a pen, you can use the skin of a cucumber to erase it

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If the human eye was a digital camera it would be 576 pixels

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Lemons contain more sugar than strawberries

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The sun is 330,330 time larger than the Earth

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A group of owls is called a parliament

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The Aztecs used chocolate as currency. People under Aztec rule could use cocoa beans to pay their taxes

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The Amazon rainforest produces half the world’s oxygen supply

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A rabbit’s teeth never stop growing

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11% of people are left handed

 

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