A car that shifts manually gets 2 miles more per gallon of gas than a car with automatic shift.

Half the foods eaten throughout the world today were developed by farmers in the Andes Mountains (including potatoes, maize, sweet potatoes, squash, all varieties of beans, peanuts, manioc, papayas, strawberries, mulberries and many others).

Most rechargeable batteries can be recharged up to 1,000 times.

A M A Z I N G   F A C T S