- Employees are more likely to book holidays off work on a Monday that any other week day.
- Everyday is a holiday somewhere in the world.
- Before 1850 golf balls were made of leather and were stuffed with feathers.
- The world's smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand.
- Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras lived around the year 500 BC and is known for his Pythagorean theorem relating to the three sides of a right angle triangle: a^2 + b^2 = c^2.
- Children have more taste buds than adults.
- Each year, the Moon moves away from Earth by about four centimeters.
- 1/4 of the bones in your body are in your feet.
- The name of the popular search engine 'Google' came from a misspelling of the word 'googol', which is a very large number (the number one followed by one hundred zeros to be exact).
- An egg contains every vitamin except vitamin C.
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