- A species of moth has the best hearing in the world.
- Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras lived around the year 500 BC and is known for his Pythagorean theorem relating to the three sides of a right angle triangle: a^2 + b^2 = c^2.
- The average porcupine has 30,000 spikes.
- M&M's chocolate stands for the initials for its inventors Mars and Murrie.
- A flipped coin is more likely to land on the side it started on.
- An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.
- A jiffy is an actual time measurement equaling 1/100th of a second.
- The most common mental illnesses are anxiety and depression.
- The softest known mineral is talc.
- Achluophobiais the fear of the dark.
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