- Greeks constructed aesthetically pleasing buildings and artworks based on the golden ratio of approximately 1.618.
- Strawberries taste sweeter at room temperature.
- There are over 690 known species of bats.
- Polar bears can smell a seal from 20 miles away.
- That you burn more calories eating celery than it contains (the more you eat the thinner you become).
- Americans eat 35,000 tons of pasta a year.
- Your right lung takes in more air than your left.
- It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown.
- Born in 1953, British mathematician Andrew Wiles is most famous for proving Fermat's Last Theorem.
- You have fewer muscles than a caterpillar.
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