- Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
- Silly String was originally designed to be a spray on cast for broken bones.
- 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.
- Your most active muscles are in your eye.
- Snakes can't bite in rivers or swamps (they would drown otherwise).
- A group of owls is called a parliament.
- Dry ice transforms directly from being a solid to a gas.
- In American supermarkets peanut butter is one of the most frequently purchased items.
- 10% of with world's food supply is consumed by insects.
- Check out some more big numbers.
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