- Your foot has 26 bones in it.
- Humans can encourage precipitation with cloud seeding.
- Only female mosquitoes bite.
- Fibonacci numbers are named after Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa (better known as Fibonacci) who introduced them to Western Europe after they had earlier been described by Indian mathematicians. They are related to the golden ratio and proceed in the following order: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, .... Can you see the pattern?.
- Your skin is the largest organ making up the human body.
- A full moon is 9 times brighter than a half moon.
- The Nile river flows North.
- Americans spend $10 million a day on potato chips.
- Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe (75%).
- Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury.
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