- The US is the world's largest consumer of coffee.
- The equals sign (=) was invented in 1557 by a Welsh mathematician named Robert Recorde.
- That in the 17th century the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places (today to 1.2411 trillion).
- There are exactly 1,048,576 bytes in 1 megabyte.
- The word fortnight is a contraction of the 2 words 'fourteen nights'.
- 45% of Americans don't know that the sun is a star.
- Nintendo first produced playing cards.
- Giraffes have the same number of vertebrae as humans: 7.
- When lightning strikes it can reach up to 30,000 degrees celsius (54,000 degrees fahrenheit).
- A pip is one of the spots on die or domino.
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