- In 1878 the first telephone book made contained only 50 names.
- Americans throw away 44 million newspapers a day.
- The worlds smallest bird is the 'bee hummingbird' found in Cuba.
- Your fingernails grow faster when you are cold.
- When you look at a bright sky and see white dots, you are looking at your blood. Those are white blood cells.
- Octopuses think with their tentacles.
- Goldfish can see both infrared and ultraviolet light.
- The first parachute jump from plane was in 1918 over France.
- You transfer more germs shaking hands than kissing.
- Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras lived around the year 500 BC and is known for his Pythagorean theorem relating to the three sides of a right angle triangle: a^2 + b^2 = c^2.
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