- Einstein slept 10 hours a night.
- A duck can't walk without bobbing its head.
- Scotland has 421 words for snow.
- Over a third of all pineapples come from Hawaii.
- Cats can hear ultrasound.
- A hippopotamus can run faster than a man.
- It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
- Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa (better known as Fibonacci) lived between the years 1170 and 1250 and is best known today for Fibonacci numbers, the number sequence named after him. Fibonacci introduced the number sequence to Western Europe in his book 'Liber Abaci' after they had been described earlier by Indian mathematicians.
- Ice skating rinks always go counter clock wise (for the majority of people that are right handed needing to hang onto the rail).
- The Basenji is a dog that yodels instead of barking.
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