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In Japan, letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered good luck. The average person sheds .7kg (1.5 pounds) of skin each year. The shortest war in history lasted for only 38 minutes. The typewriter was invented in 1829. The Eifel Tower has 2,500,000 rivets. The most commonly forgotten item for travelers is their toothbrush. The pupils in goats' eyes are rectangular. 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. Archimedes of Syracuse lived around the year 250 BC and played a large role in the history of geometry including a method for determining the volume of objects with irregular shapes. Fish can cough. reload more facts