- The moon is 27% the size of the Earth.
- According to manufacturer Spalding the average lifespan of an NBA basketball is 10,000 bounces.
- You shed a complete layer of skin every 4 weeks.
- Fibonacci numbers are named after Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa (better known as Fibonacci) who introduced them to Western Europe after they had earlier been described by Indian mathematicians. They are related to the golden ratio and proceed in the following order: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, .... Can you see the pattern?.
- Canada has more doughnut shops per capita than any other country.
- 99% of our solar system's mass is the sun.
- John Kellogg invented corn flakes.
- The largest exporter of sugar is Cuba.
- There are over 100,000 different species of butterflies.
- 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).
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