- The word 'lethologica' describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
- Birds need gravity to swallow.
- By age 60 most people would have lost half of their taste buds.
- Over 2,500 left handed people are killed a year from using right handed products.
- If you add up all the numbers from 1 to 100 consecutively (1 + 2 + 3...) it totals 5050.
- 21% of people don't make their bed in the morning.
- Over 500 meteorites hit the Earth each year.
- Elephants are the only mammal that can't jump.
- Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa (better known as Fibonacci) lived between the years 1170 and 1250 and is best known today for Fibonacci numbers, the number sequence named after him. Fibonacci introduced the number sequence to Western Europe in his book 'Liber Abaci' after they had been described earlier by Indian mathematicians.
- Acrophobia is the fear of heights.
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