- Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa (better known as Fibonacci) lived between the years 1170 and 1250 and is best known today for Fibonacci numbers, the number sequence named after him. Fibonacci introduced the number sequence to Western Europe in his book 'Liber Abaci' after they had been described earlier by Indian mathematicians.
- Brontology is the study of thunder.
- That you can spell the word 'level' the same backwards.
- All scorpions glow.
- The hamburger was invented in 1900.
- Only 4 out of 20,000 species of bees produce honey.
- There are over 900,000 known species of insects.
- Japanese people don't have middle names.
- Forty percent of twins invent their own language.
- The longest attack of hiccups lasted 68 years.
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