- The odds of being stuck by lighting is 280,000 to 1.
- Triscadecaphobia is the fear of the number 13.
- Some fish cough. Really.
- The center of the Sun is approximately 15 million C (27 million F).
- Panda bears eat up to 16 hours a day.
- Tarantula spiders can survive 2 and a half years without food.
- The shortest war in history lasted for only 38 minutes.
- 8% of people have an extra rib.
- The ball on top of a flag pole is called the truck.
- Born in 1882, Emmy Noether was a German mathematician who made important contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics, described by Einstein as the most important woman in the history of mathematics.
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