- People who work at night tend to weigh more.
- Alan Turing was a British mathematician and computer scientist who cracked German ciphers (codes) in the Second World War, contributed to mathematical logic and played an important role in the development of algorithms, artificial intelligence and the modern computer.
- Owls can't move their eyes from side to side.
- Gorillas sleep 14 hours a day.
- Your fingernails grow faster when you are cold.
- Born in 1777, German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss contributed brilliant work in geometry, statistics, number theories, algebra and much more.
- Don't like mosquitoes? Get a bat. They could eat 3,000 insects a night.
- Born in 1882, Emmy Noether was a German mathematician who made important contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics, described by Einstein as the most important woman in the history of mathematics.
- Ombrophobia is the fear of rain.
- India is home to over 200 million cows.
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