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Employees are more likely to book holidays off work on a Monday that any other week day. A Greek mathematician named Euclid who lived around the year 300 BC is often referred to as the 'Father of Geometry' for his amazing geometry works that included the influential 'Elements', which remained the main textbook for teaching mathematics until around the early 20th century. Hippopotamuses are born under water. There are 2,598,960 possible hands in a 5 card poker game. The smallest country in the world takes up .2 square miles: Vatican City. Flys always launch backwards for a quick getaway. A shrimp has 5 pairs of legs. Only 4 out of 20,000 species of bees produce honey. There is no sound in space. The 'you are here' arrow on maps is called an ideo locator. reload more facts