2. The word carat derives from the carob bean. Gem dealers balance their scales with carob beans because these beans all have the same weight!
3. Collective nouns anyone> A culture of bacteria, a quiver of cobras, a smack of jellyfish and a plague of locusts!
4. In 1913, the Russian airline became the first to introduce a toilet on board!
5. Botanically speaking, the banana is an herb and the tomato is a fruit!
6. In Seattle, a driver spends 59 hours per year in a traffic jam!
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