- There are over 15,000 different kinds of rice.
- All of the clocks in the movie 'Pulp Fiction' are fixed to 4:20.
- Modern mathematics has advanced greatly thanks to the incredible computing power of today's computers.
- Scotland has 421 words for snow.
- The first crossword puzzle appeared in 1913.
- The average person sheds .7kg (1.5 pounds) of skin each year.
- The average person laughs 10 times a day.
- The sun is 330,330 times larger than the Earth.
- It is believed that Ancient Egyptians used complex mathematics such as algebra, arithmetic and geometry as far back as 3000 BC, such as equations to approximate the area of circles.
- The Earth weighs 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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