- The alchemy symbol for water is an inverted triangle, resembling a cup or glass.
- To make one pound of honey, a honeybee must tap about two million flowers.
- Greeks constructed aesthetically pleasing buildings and artworks based on the golden ratio of approximately 1.618.
- A flea can jump 350 times its body length.
- There is a museum of strawberries in Belgium.
- 'underground' is the only word that begins and ends with the letters 'und'.
- Greek mathematics developed from around the 7th century BC, producing many important theories thanks to great mathematicians such as Pythagoras, Euclid and Archimedes.
- The average bank teller loses $250 every year.
- For every human there are 200 million insects.
- The Eiffel Tower has 1,792 steps.
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