- Along with arithmetic, geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics.
- The most valuable nutrients of a potato are its skin.
- There are over 15,000 different kinds of rice.
- The moon is 27% the size of the Earth.
- Over 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.
- Denver sits at 5,280 feet elevation (1 mile above sea level).
- On your birthday you share it with 9 million others.
- There are exactly 1,048,576 bytes in 1 megabyte.
- Adult humans are the only mammal that can't breathe and swallow at the same time.
- 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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