- The average person takes 23,000 breaths a day.
- The Sun has a diameter of 1,390,176km (864,000miles).
- Chevy Chase's real first name is Cornelius.
- Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
- A Greek mathematician named Euclid who lived around the year 300 BC is often referred to as the 'Father of Geometry' for his amazing geometry works that included the influential 'Elements', which remained the main textbook for teaching mathematics until around the early 20th century.
- Blonde beards grow faster than darker beards.
- Sir Isaac Newton was 23 when he discovered the law of gravity.
- China manufacturers 70% of the worlds toys.
- Fibonacci numbers are named after Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa (better known as Fibonacci) who introduced them to Western Europe after they had earlier been described by Indian mathematicians. They are related to the golden ratio and proceed in the following order: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, .... Can you see the pattern?.
- Brazil is named after a tree.
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