- A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.
- The golden ratio of approximately 1.618 between two quantities such as lengths often appears in nature (tree branching, uncurling ferns, pine cone arrangements etc) and has been used throughout history to create aesthetically pleasing designs and art works such as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
- The word fortnight is a contraction of the 2 words 'fourteen nights'.
- The first sport to be filmed was boxing in 1894.
- Pearls melt in vinegar.
- Along with arithmetic, geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics.
- Catfish have over 100,000 taste buds.
- A crocodile can't stick out its tongue.
- Folklore states that if you split a double strawberry in half and share it with the opposite sex, you'll soon fall in love.
- Plastic bottles were first used for soft drinks in 1970.
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