- Your fingernails grow faster when you are cold.
- MTV (Music Television) made its debut at 12:01 a.m. August 1st 1981 (the first music video shown 'Video killed the radio star' by the Buggles).
- Over 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens each year.
- There are around 30 milligrams of caffeine in the average chocolate bar while a cup of coffee has around 100 to 150.
- Archimedes of Syracuse lived around the year 250 BC and played a large role in the history of geometry including a method for determining the volume of objects with irregular shapes.
- Giant tortoises can live in captivity longer than any other animal.
- Mosquitoes prefer children to adults and blondes to brunettes.
- Koalas and humans are the only animals with unique fingerprints.
- German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz lived between 1646 and 1716, developing important calculus concepts and mathematical notation practices.
- Dark roasted coffee beans contain less caffeine than medium roasted ones (the longer a coffee is roasted the more caffeine is burns off).
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