- There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.
- The yo-yo was originally used as a weapon for hunting the in the Philippines.
- 2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end with a 2 or a 5.
- Only pregnant females polar bears hibernate.
- Much of the work done by Leibniz and Newton is based on theories by French philosopher Rene Descartes. As well as his many contributions to philosophy, Descartes also had a huge impact on mathematics, creating analytical geometry, developing a system that describes geometry using algebra, contributing to optics and much more.
- The average elephant produces 22kg (50 pounds) of dunn each day.
- There are over 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building.
- Jellyfish don't have brains.
- You might have heard the word 'infinity' before or seen its symbol that looks like the number 8 placed on its side. Infinity means a limitless quantity or something that goes on forever. While it's not really a number like 1, 2 or 3, infinity is often used in math as part of equations and formulas.
- Wind moves air from high to low pressure areas.
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