- Gentoo penguins propose to their life mates with a pebble.
- The surface area of a brick is 79 cm squared.
- Horses can't vomit.
- A ten-gallon hat holds less than a gallon of liquid.
- The Empire State Building in New York weighs over 365,000 tons.
- The most eaten fruit in America is the banana.
- Sharks never stop moving even when they sleep or rest.
- England's Stonehenge is over 5,000 years old.
- Different names for the number 0 include zero, nought, naught, nil, zilch and zip.
- 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?.
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