- You can only see a rainbow if you have your back to the sun.
- Chameleons can move both their eyes in different directions at the same time.
- There are more fake than real flamingos.
- Cheerios cereal was originally called Cheerioats.
- The average koala sleeps 22 hours each day.
- The ball on top of a flag pole is called the truck.
- A cheetahs top speed is 114kph (70mph).
- Light is electro magnetic radiation.
- A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair.
- 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.
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