- You have to eat 5kg (11lb) of potatoes to put on .5kg (1lb) of weight (a potato has no more calories than an apple).
- It takes 110 silkworm cocoons to make an average tie.
- Reindeer hair is hollow inside like a tube.
- Australia has 10,685 beaches; you could visit a new beach every day for more than 29 years.
- Chevy Chase's real first name is Cornelius.
- You can cut a pie into 8 pieces with only three cuts.
- Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa (better known as Fibonacci) lived between the years 1170 and 1250 and is best known today for Fibonacci numbers, the number sequence named after him. Fibonacci introduced the number sequence to Western Europe in his book 'Liber Abaci' after they had been described earlier by Indian mathematicians.
- Bernhard Riemann was an influential German mathematician who contributed to differential geometry and analysis, paving the way for the development of general relativity by Albert Einstein.
- You are always looking at your nose, your brain just chooses to ignore it.
- Coffee is the most popular beverage worldwide with over 400 billion cups consumed each year.
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