- Lettuce is the worlds most popular green vegitable.
- Chinese mathematics developed around the 11th century BC and included important concepts related to negative numbers, decimals, algebra and geometry.
- The game of basketball was first played using a soccer ball and two peach baskets.
- 'underground' is the only word that begins and ends with the letters 'und'.
- Archimedes of Syracuse lived around the year 250 BC and among other things, developed a method for determining the volume of objects with irregular shapes.
- A queen bee can lay up to 3,000 eggs in one day.
- The chicken is the closest living relative of Tyrannosaurus Rex.
- Ancient Egyptians used geometry principles as far back as 3000 BC, using equations to approximate the area of circles among other formulas.
- In 1634, Tulip bulbs were a form of currency in Holland.
- Diamonds mined in Brazil are much harder than those found in Africa.
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