- 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?.
- A horse's canter is a 3-beat gait. After the third beat all three legs are off the ground.
- The Sun has a diameter of 1,390,176km (864,000miles).
- Light is electro magnetic radiation.
- There are over 40,000 muscles tendons in an elephant's trunk.
- A woodpeckers tongue can wrap around its head twice.
- Australia has the largest sheep population.
- Americans throw away 44 million newspapers a day.
- Buckingham Palace has over 600 rooms.
- If you doubled one penny every day for 30 days, you would have $5,368,709.12.
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