- A day on Venus lasts longer than a year on Venus.
- Americans spend $10 million a day on potato chips.
- Gentoo penguins propose to their life mates with a pebble.
- October the 10th is national metric day.
- There are more skin cancer cases caused by tanning beds than there are lung cancer cases caused by smoking.
- Coffee is the most popular beverage worldwide with over 400 billion cups consumed each year.
- Before beginning his movie career Keanu Reeves managed a pasta shop in Toronto Canada.
- Born in 1953, British mathematician Andrew Wiles is most famous for proving Fermat's Last Theorem.
- A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through.
- It is believed that Ancient Egyptians used complex mathematics such as algebra, arithmetic and geometry as far back as 3000 BC, such as equations to approximate the area of circles.
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