- A connected bunch of bananas is called a hand and individual bananas are called fingers.
- Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler was probably the most influential mathematician of the 18th century, making discoveries in graph theory and introducing many modern mathematical words and notations among other things.
- Sesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
- The first letters of the months July through to November spell JASON.
- Glaciers and ice sheets hold about 69 percent of the world’s freshwater.
- A group of whales is called a pod.
- The surface area of your lungs is roughly the same size as a tennis court.
- 111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321.
- Gunpowder is formed by mixing charcoal, saltpetre and sulphur.
- The state of Alabama once financed the construction of a bridge by holding a rooster auction.
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