- Born in France, Pierre de Fermat was an amateur mathematician who is best known for Fermat's Last Theorem.
- Cucumbers are 96% water.
- There are 31,557,600 seconds in a year.
- 1 gigayear = 1,000,000,000,000 years.
- Not a single number has the letter "b" in it until you reach a billion.
- Horses can't vomit.
- Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today's measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.14).
- Birds cannot live in space because they need gravity to be able to swallow.
- A person produces enough saliva to fill 2 average size swimming pools during their lifetime.
- Frogs can't swallow with their eyes open.
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