- A Greek mathematician named Euclid who lived around the year 300 BC is often referred to as the 'Father of Geometry' for his amazing geometry works that included the influential 'Elements', which remained the main textbook for teaching mathematics until around the early 20th century.
- A human being could swim through the blood vessels of a blue whale.
- Chinese mathematics developed around the 11th century BC and included important concepts related to negative numbers, decimals, algebra and geometry.
- A horse's canter is a 3-beat gait. After the third beat all three legs are off the ground.
- 20% of China's plants are used in medicine.
- Water can boil and freeze at the same time.
- Camels are born without humps.
- The first taxi service began in New York in 1907.
- The fastest gust of wind ever recorded on Earth was 253 miles per hour.
- A crocodile can't stick out its tongue.
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