- African elephants only have 4 teeth.
- The human eye can detect more shades of green that any other colour.
- The Snapple name combines the words Snappy and Apple.
- Bill Gates began programming computers at the of age 13.
- 1 googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.
- You burn more calories sleeping than watching TV.
- Raindrops are not tear shaped (they more resemble the shape of a tiny hamburger bun).
- When lightning strikes it can reach up to 30,000 degrees celsius (54,000 degrees fahrenheit).
- Octopuses think with their tentacles.
- Greek mathematician Euclid is often referred to as the 'Father of Geometry' for his revolutionary ideas and influential textbook called 'Elements' that he wrote around the year 300 BC.
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