- The lie detector was invented in 1921.
- A platypus can eat its weight in worms every day.
- 42% of men and women 25% don't wash their hands after using a public toilet.
- 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.
- Franklin Mars invented the Snickers Bar in 1930.
- The word 'geometry' comes from the Greek words 'geo', meaning earth, and 'metria', meaning measure.
- A camel can shut its nostrils during a desert sandstorm.
- Ketchup was once sold as a medicine.
- Unless food is mixed with saliva you can't taste it.
- A jiffy is an actual time measurement equaling 1/100th of a second.
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