- Along with arithmetic, geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics.
- Draughts (checkers) is older than chess.
- Your brain uses 25% of all the oxygen your breathe.
- A whip makes a cracking sound because its tip moves faster than the speed of sound.
- According to the old English time system a moment is 1 and a half minutes.
- Isaac Newton discovered the laws of physics and brought together many important concepts of infinitesimal calculus.
- In Japan, letting a sumo wrestler make your baby cry is considered good luck.
- The first drug that was sold as a water soluble tablet was aspirin in 1900.
- DVDs are physically the same size as a CDs but can store 13 times more data.
- The opposite sides of a die always adds up to 7.
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