- More people are killed by hippopotamuses then by lions, elephants and water buffalos combined.
- Employees of the Vatican pay no income tax.
- A suction cup will not work in outer space.
- The shortest war in history lasted for only 38 minutes.
- The spikes of a newborn hedgehog begin to appear within 24 hours.
- Each red blood cell lives an average of 4 months and travels between the lungs and other tissue 75,000 times before returning to bone marrow to die.
- Pound cake got its name from the original recipe which called for a pound of butter.
- The movie 'Wayne's World' was filmed in two weeks.
- The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes.
- 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.
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