1. 40 degrees Celsius is equal to -40 degrees Fahrenheit.
2. About 7,000 new insect species are discovered every year.
3. 9 out every 10 lightning strike victims survive.
4. A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
5. Birds chews with their stomach.
6. A man once sued his doctor for surviving cancer longer than the doctor predicted.
7. Violins contains about 70 separate pieces of wood.
8. Actor John Wayne made more than 200 movies.
9. An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10,000 feet.
10. The author of Sherlock Holmes stories Arthur Conan Doyle was an ophthalmologist by profession not a detective.
11. Australia was the first country to use postcards.
12. Buttermilk contains no milk.
13. You can’t sink in a quicksand by raising your leg slowly while laying on your back.
14. El Salvador is the only central American country without a coastline on the Caribbean.
15. English is the only language that capitalizes the first person singular ‘I’.
16. Antarctica has an area code. It’s 672.
17. Water under extreme high pressure can cut through a steel beam.
18. The first four countries to have television are England, U.S, Russia and Brazil.
19. Every gallon of sea water contains more than a quarter pound of salt.
20. The second hand in any authentic Rolex watch doesn’t tick, it moves smoothly.

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