1.
The Indonesian word for water is air.
2. Prostitutes
in the Netherlands pay taxes.
3. The
Netherlands closed eight prisons in 2013, due to lack of criminals
4. The
Netherlands has more bicycles than people, 1.3 per person.
5. The
extinct Ubykh language, spoken in the Caucasus until 1992, holds the record for
most consonants: it had 83 but only two vowels.
6. You
would have to click a mouse ten million times to burn a single calorie.
7. The
average intelligence of humans has risen 20 IQ points since 1950, a study
found.
8. Bears
have favourite trees and will walk for miles just to scratch their backs on
them.
9. Professional
baseball players have an average visual acuity of 20/12, much better than the
"good" 20/20 vision most people have.
10.
Ph.D. students display twice as many symptoms of
psychiatric disorders, such as depression, than other people.
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