- The first crossword puzzle appeared in 1913.
- An average person will spend 25 years asleep.
- Mountain lions can whistle.
- The Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters.
- You can't hum while plugging your nose.
- 2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end with a 2 or a 5.
- The most abundant metal in the Earth's crust is aluminum.
- The 100 folds in a chef's hat represent the 100 ways to cook an egg.
- The most popular snack food is potato chips.
- Much of the work done by Leibniz and Newton is based on theories by French philosopher Rene Descartes. As well as his many contributions to philosophy, Descartes also had a huge impact on mathematics, creating analytical geometry, developing a system that describes geometry using algebra, contributing to optics and much more.
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