- Jousting is the official sport of Maryland.
- The diameter of Earth is 12,756 km (7,926 miles).
- A group of jellyfish is called a smack.
- Pound cake got its name from the original recipe which called for a pound of butter.
- Catoptrophobia is the fear of mirrors.
- Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.
- Cabbage is 91% water.
- Wind moves air from high to low pressure areas.
- The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters.
- 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.
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