- Hippopotamuses are born under water.
- The letter W is the only letter in the alphabet that has 3 syllables (all others have 1).
- That in the 17th century the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places (today to 1.2411 trillion).
- 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.
- On average 22% of all restaurant meals include potato chips.
- The odds of being struck by lightning are 600,000 to 1.
- The revolving door was invented in 1888.
- Here is Pi written to 100 decimal places:
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751
058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679.
- You will experience the billionth seconds of your life when you are 31 years old.
- Brazil is named after a tree.
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