- Tachophobia is the fear of speed.
- The lifespan of a taste bud is about ten days.
- Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.
- The typewriter was invented in 1829.
- Bernhard Riemann was an influential German mathematician who contributed to differential geometry and analysis, paving the way for the development of general relativity by Albert Einstein.
- The most common Spanish surname is Garcia.
- The wheelbarrow is invented in China.
- Apples are more effective at waking you up in the morning than coffee.
- Alan Turing was a British mathematician and computer scientist who cracked German ciphers (codes) in the Second World War, contributed to mathematical logic and played an important role in the development of algorithms, artificial intelligence and the modern computer.
- Born in 1777, German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss contributed brilliant work in geometry, statistics, number theories, algebra and much more.
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