- There are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on earth.
- That in the 17th century the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places (today to 1.2411 trillion).
- When grazing or resting, cows tend to align their bodies with the magnetic north and south poles.
- Porsche also builds tractors.
- Forty is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order.
- Australia has 10,685 beaches; you could visit a new beach every day for more than 29 years.
- All of the clocks in the movie 'Pulp Fiction' are fixed to 4:20.
- Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today's measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.14).
- A day on Venus lasts longer than a year on Venus.
- Baboons were once trained by Egyptians to wait on tables.
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