- In eastern Africa you can buy beer brewed from bananas.
- Dreamt is the only word that ends in mt.
- Every ton of recycled paper saves about 17 trees.
- While you sleep you can't smell anything, even really, really bad or potent smells.
- An elephants ears are used to regulate body temperature.
- Love carrots? Don't eat too many or you will turn orange.
- The corkscrew was invented in 1890.
- Giraffes can't swim.
- Ichthyophobia is the fear of fish.
- Fibonacci numbers are named after Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa (better known as Fibonacci) who introduced them to Western Europe after they had earlier been described by Indian mathematicians. They are related to the golden ratio and proceed in the following order: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, .... Can you see the pattern?.
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