- If your DNA was stretched out it would reach to the moon 6,000 times.
- Here is Pi written to 100 decimal places:
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751
058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679.
- A bolt of lightning can reach roughly 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Humans shed and regrow outer skin cells every 27 days (almost 1,000 new skins in a lifetime).
- The Olympic flag was designed in 1913.
- Caterpillars have over 2,000 muscles.
- Police dogs are trained to respond to commands in foreign languages (usually German or Hungarian).
- Ancient Egyptians used geometry principles as far back as 3000 BC, using equations to approximate the area of circles among other formulas.
- The term 007 was derived from 20007, the home zip code of many Washington, D.C. agents.
- Blue and white are the most common school colors.
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