- The equals sign (=) was invented in 1557 by a Welsh mathematician named Robert Recorde.
- Useful life of a modern toilet is 50 years.
- Kangaroos can not walk backwards.
- Your most active muscles are in your eye.
- A jellyfish is 95% water.
- Americans spend $10 million a day on potato chips.
- Only 4 out of 20,000 species of bees produce honey.
- You can't hum while plugging your nose.
- Mathematical developments increased rapidly around the time of the Italian Renaissance in the 16th century and continued through the scientific revolution of the 17th and 18th centuries, becoming increasingly abstract in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Alan Turing was a British mathematician and computer scientist who cracked German ciphers (codes) in the Second World War, contributed to mathematical logic and played an important role in the development of algorithms, artificial intelligence and the modern computer.
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