- 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).
- Carrots contain 0% fat.
- The US shreds 7,000 tons of worn out currency each year.
- Flys always launch backwards for a quick getaway.
- You can tell a turtle's gender by the noise it makes. Males grunt and females hiss.
- If you add up all the numbers from 1 to 100 consecutively (1 + 2 + 3...) it totals 5050.
- No number from one to 999 includes the letter "a" in its word form.
- Pandas spend 12 hours a day eating bamboo.
- Scotland has 421 words for snow.
- Coffee represents 75% of all the caffeine consumed in the US.
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