- 1 square inch of human skin contains 625 sweat glands.
- In 1642 French mathematician Blaise Pascal invented the mechanical calculator.
- A connected bunch of bananas is called a hand and individual bananas are called fingers.
- Chocolate is the number 1 food craved by women.
- 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?.
- Ants stretch when they wake up in the morning.
- The familiar smell of rain is called petrichor.
- The first sport to be filmed was boxing in 1894.
- A fly's reaction time is 30 milliseconds.
- When a koala is born, it is about the size of a jelly bean.
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