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Blue and white are the most common school colors. Along with arithmetic, geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics. A spider's silk is stronger than steel. Mapping is older than writing. A cat uses its whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The Hindu-Arabic numeral system began developing as early as the 1st century with a full system being established around the 9th century, forming the basis of the numerical digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 that we use today. Small dogs usually live longer than larger breeds. The longest recorded flight of a chicken was 13 seconds. The hottest chile in the world is the habanero. Honeybees navigate by using the Sun as a compass. reload more facts