- At one time, serving ice cream on cherry pie in Kansas was prohibited.
- Orienteering originated from Sweden.
- An octopus has nine brains and three hearts.
- The first sailing boats were built in Egypt.
- Household dust is made of dead skin cells.
- The first human-made object to break the sound barrier was a whip.
- 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.
- EMI awards stands for 'Electrical and Musical Instruments'.
- You have to eat 5kg (11lb) of potatoes to put on .5kg (1lb) of weight (a potato has no more calories than an apple).
- 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).
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