- A fire will burn faster moving uphill than downhill.
- The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
- A giraffe can clean its ears with its 21 inch tongue.
- The hardest substance in the human body is enamel.
- Crocodiles never outgrow their enclosure.
- A Greek mathematician named Euclid who lived around the year 300 BC is often referred to as the 'Father of Geometry' for his amazing geometry works that included the influential 'Elements', which remained the main textbook for teaching mathematics until around the early 20th century.
- The humming bird is the only bird that can fly backwards.
- Gorillas burp when they are happy.
- Born in 1777, German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss contributed brilliant work in geometry, statistics, number theories, algebra and much more.
- American's eat 18 billion hot dogs a year.
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