- The familiar smell of rain is called petrichor.
- Every living thing on the Earth contains carbon.
- Miami installed the first ATM for inline skaters.
- The elevator was invented in 1850.
- Strawberries are actually members of the rose family.
- Red blood cells are produced in bone marrow.
- A fifteen-year-old boy invented earmuffs in 1873.
- If you add up all the numbers from 1 to 100 consecutively (1 + 2 + 3...) it totals 5050.
- 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?.
- Canada has more lakes than any other country.
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