- Albert Einstein never knew how to drive a car.
- The golden ratio of approximately 1.618 between two quantities such as lengths often appears in nature (tree branching, uncurling ferns, pine cone arrangements etc) and has been used throughout history to create aesthetically pleasing designs and art works such as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
- Mexican jumping beans jump to get out of sunlight.
- 2 and 5 are the only prime numbers that end with a 2 or a 5.
- A suction cup will not work in outer space.
- Owls can't move their eyes from side to side.
- The coloured part of your eye is called the iris.
- Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler was probably the most influential mathematician of the 18th century, making discoveries in graph theory and introducing many modern mathematical words and notations among other things.
- The hyoid bone in your throat is the only bone in your body not attached to any other.
- There are 7 points on the Statue of Liberty's crown.
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