- Bananas are a good source of vitamin C, potassium and fiber.
- Mount Everest is 8.9km (5.5 miles) high.
- The diameter of Jupiter is 152,800km (88 700 miles).
- A group of whales is called a pod.
- What comes after a million, billion and trillion? A quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, decillion and undecillion.
- You fart on average 14 times a day, and each fart travels from your body at 7 mph.
- Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today's measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.14).
- On the average there are 8 peas in a pod.
- Honey enters your blood stream within 20 minutes of being eaten.
- The equals sign (=) was invented in 1557 by a Welsh mathematician named Robert Recorde.
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