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The first credit card was a Diner's Club card issued in 1950. The first place in the world to allow women to vote New Zealand. The golden ratio of approximately 1.618 between two quantities such as lengths often appears in nature (tree branching, uncurling ferns, pine cone arrangements etc) and has been used throughout history to create aesthetically pleasing designs and art works such as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. The average golf ball has 336 dimples. More people are killed by hippopotamuses then by lions, elephants and water buffalos combined. A platypus can eat its weight in worms every day. Months that start on a Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th. The game of basketball was first played using a soccer ball and two peach baskets. Female condors lays a single egg once every 2 years. The woodpecker can hammer wood up to 16 times per second. reload more facts