- The dishwasher was invented in 1889.
- A bear in hibernation loses up to 25% of its body weight.
- Bamboo makes up 99% of a panda's diet.
- Strawberries are actually members of the rose family.
- Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras lived around the year 500 BC and is known for his Pythagorean theorem relating to the three sides of a right angle triangle: a^2 + b^2 = c^2.
- Your head contains 22 bones.
- 1 gigayear = 1,000,000,000,000 years.
- Cheetahs can accelerate from 0 to 70 km/h (43mp/h) in 3 seconds.
- Your blood is 6 times thicker than water.
- The human eye blinks over 4,200,000 times a year.
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