- Melophobia is the fear of music.
- From space the brightest man made place is Las Vegas.
- 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.
- Blueberries are very high in antioxidants.
- The number Pi (the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle) can't be expressed as a fraction, making it an irrational number. It never repeats and never ends when written as a decimal.
- Strawberries are actually members of the rose family.
- 'orology' is the study of mountains.
- Bananas are a good source of vitamin C, potassium and fiber.
- Alan Turing was a British mathematician and computer scientist who cracked German ciphers (codes) in the Second World War, contributed to mathematical logic and played an important role in the development of algorithms, artificial intelligence and the modern computer.
- Over 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.
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