- Baby rattlesnakes are born in August and September.
- Mercury and Venus are the only planets in our solar system with no moon.
- The game of basketball was first played using a soccer ball and two peach baskets.
- Months that start on a Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th.
- You cannot taste food until mixed with saliva.
- Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras lived around the year 500 BC and is known for his Pythagorean theorem relating to the three sides of a right angle triangle: a^2 + b^2 = c^2.
- 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.
- Sound travels 4.3 times faster through water than in air.
- 45% of people use mouthwash daily.
- A Galapagos tortoise can take up to three weeks to digest a meal.
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