Interesting Facts - Page 156

About 1 in 100,000 people have a gene mutation which makes them unable to process fructose. To date, no one with this mutation has ever developed obesity or type 2 diabetes.

In parts of south and southeast Asia, it was once common to execute people using specially trained elephants.

There are two moons in the solar system (Ganymede and Titan) which are larger than the smallest planet (Mercury).

There is a whale, called the "52-hertz whale" that has been trying to communicate for decades at 52 hertz, a frequency that no other whales use. But there may be hope for the so-called "world's loneliest whale". Since 2010, there have been sporadic recordings of a second 52 hertz whale. True love?

Nigel Richards is considered the greatest Scrabble player of all-time. He has won five world championships, the only person to win more than one. But his greatest accomplishment may have occurred in 2015. Despite not speaking French, he studied the French Scrabble dictionary for nine weeks and then won a world title in French-language Scrabble.