- Nintendo first produced playing cards.
- There are over 100,000 different species of butterflies.
- Moisture (not air) causes super glue to dry.
- 13 people die every year from vending machines.
- Less than 20% of shark attacks are fatal.
- Hawaii was originally called the Sandwich Islands.
- Hawaii is the only US state that grows coffee.
- The bumblebee bat weighs less than a penny.
- The only letter which doesn't appear in the Periodic Table is j.
- Mathematical developments increased rapidly around the time of the Italian Renaissance in the 16th century and continued through the scientific revolution of the 17th and 18th centuries, becoming increasingly abstract in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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