- The only thing that can destroy a diamond is intense heat.
- Cows give more milk when they listen to music.
- You can't hum while plugging your nose.
- Elephants are afraid of bees.
- A platypus can eat its weight in worms every day.
- The most common injury in ten pin bowling is a sore thumb.
- 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.
- Bernhard Riemann was an influential German mathematician who contributed to differential geometry and analysis, paving the way for the development of general relativity by Albert Einstein.
- The game of Tug-of-war was an Olympic sport from 1900-1920.
- A species of moth has the best hearing in the world.
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