- It takes 1 week to make a jelly bean.
- Scorpions glow under ultra violet light.
- Fibonacci numbers are named after Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa (better known as Fibonacci) who introduced them to Western Europe after they had earlier been described by Indian mathematicians. They are related to the golden ratio and proceed in the following order: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, .... Can you see the pattern?.
- Ombrophobia is the fear of rain.
- If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
- Early sunscreens included ingredients like rice bran oil, iron, clay, and tar.
- A male kangaroo is called a Boomer.
- The average cow produces 40 glasses of milk a day.
- 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 US shreds 7,000 tons of worn out currency each year.
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