- 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).
- Most snakes have 1 lung.
- The numerical digits we use today such as 1, 2 and 3 are based on the Hindu-Arabic numeral system developed over 1000 years ago.
- Coffee represents 75% of all the caffeine consumed in the US.
- Archimedes of Syracuse lived around the year 250 BC and played a large role in the history of geometry including a method for determining the volume of objects with irregular shapes.
- U.S. paper currency isn't made of paper u2013 it's actually a blend of cotton and linen.
- The Empire State Building in New York weighs over 365,000 tons.
- It takes 1 week to make a jelly bean.
- Apples are more effective at waking you up in the morning than coffee.
- The fortune cookie was invented in San Francisco.
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