- Gorillas can't swim.
- A full moon is nine times brighter than a half moon.
- 80% of burglaries are committed by people aged 13-21.
- Coffee trees produce its first full crop after 5 years old.
- Born in 1777, German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss contributed brilliant work in geometry, statistics, number theories, algebra and much more.
- Over 5 million people in Brazil are employed in the coffee industry.
- Alan Turing was a British mathematician and computer scientist who cracked German ciphers (codes) in the Second World War, contributed to mathematical logic and played an important role in the development of algorithms, artificial intelligence and the modern computer.
- The Hindu-Arabic numeral system began developing as early as the 1st century with a full system being established around the 9th century, forming the basis of the numerical digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 that we use today.
- Chicken drumsticks contain the least amount of meat on a chicken.
- Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
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