Olympic gold medals are actually 92.5% silver.
The Netherlands plans to have a 100% wind-powered railway system by 2018.
When you snap your finger, your finger moves at about 20 mph.
The first song sung in the space was Jingle bells.
The Kingdom of Bhutan plans to get rid of all chemicals in its agriculture, becoming the first 100% organic nation within the next generation.
The terms "UK" and "Great Britain" are not interchangeable—the United Kingdom includes Northern Ireland, while Great Britain does not.
Diamonds were first discovered in the riverbeds of the Golconda region of India over 4,000 years ago.
The footprints of astronauts who landed on the moon are expected to last at least 10 million years.
There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
At the North Pole - where all the time zones converge - there is no time zone, and the sun only rises and sets once per year.
The Hawaiian alphabet only has twelve letters: a,e,i,o,u,h,k,l,m,n,p,w.
The British Empire at its height was larger than Africa and was even comparable in size to the Moon.
Tesla Motors' Model X, an SUV, can accelerate from zero to 60 miles per hour in as quick as 3.2 seconds.
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