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Mathematical developments increased rapidly around the time of the Italian Renaissance in the 16th century and continued through the scientific revolution of the 17th and 18th centuries, becoming increasingly abstract in the 19th and 20th centuries. Frogs don't usually swallow water (they absorb most of the moisture they need through their skin). A fifteen-year-old boy invented earmuffs in 1873. The average bed contains over 6 billion dust mites. Cans of diet soda will float in water but regular soda cans will sink. You can tell a turtle's gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt and females hiss. Britain was the first country to use postage stamps. The sun is 330,330 times larger than the Earth. The number Pi (the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle) can't be expressed as a fraction, making it an irrational number. It never repeats and never ends when written as a decimal. The word denim comes from 'de Nimes' or from Nimes which is a town in France. reload more facts