- An electric eel can release a charge powerful enough to start 50 cars.
- That the first MTV video played was 'Video killed the radio star' by the Buggles.
- Born in 1953, British mathematician Andrew Wiles is most famous for proving Fermat's Last Theorem.
- The oldest exposed surface on Earth is New Zealand's south island.
- You can buy square watermelons in Japan (developed to stack better in supermarkets).
- Coca Cola was founded by Joseph A Biedenharn.
- Dogs can make about 10 sounds, while cats make about 100.
- When your face blushes so does your stomach lining.
- Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras lived around the year 500 BC and is known for his Pythagorean theorem relating to the three sides of a right angle triangle: a^2 + b^2 = c^2.
- There are over 10 trillion living cells in the human body.
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