- American Black bears are not just black but include bears of varying colors including blonde, cinnamon, brown, white and even silver-blue.
- Dairy cows drink up to 50 gallons of water per day.
- 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).
- The 100 folds in a chef's hat represent the 100 ways to cook an egg.
- Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury.
- It is believed that Ancient Egyptians used complex mathematics such as algebra, arithmetic and geometry as far back as 3000 BC, such as equations to approximate the area of circles.
- The average person has 10,000 taste buds.
- Deers don't like hay.
- The surface area of a brick is 79 cm squared.
- A flipped coin is more likely to land on the side it started on.
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