- Rio de Janeiro translates to river of January.
- Each red blood cell lives an average of 4 months and travels between the lungs and other tissue 75,000 times before returning to bone marrow to die.
- Dry ice transforms directly from being a solid to a gas.
- The 'you are here' arrow on maps is called an ideo locator.
- October the 10th is national metric day.
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