- American's eat 18 billion hot dogs a year.
- Greeks constructed aesthetically pleasing buildings and artworks based on the golden ratio of approximately 1.618.
- Born in 1953, British mathematician Andrew Wiles is most famous for proving Fermat's Last Theorem.
- Water can boil and freeze at the same time.
- Flushable toilets were in use in ancient Rome.
- The movie 'Wayne's World' was filmed in two weeks.
- The doorbell was invented in 1831.
- The water in the Dead Sea is so salty that its easier to float than sink.
- There are more skin cancer cases caused by tanning beds than there are lung cancer cases caused by smoking.
- Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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