- A Greek mathematician named Euclid who lived around the year 300 BC is often referred to as the 'Father of Geometry' for his amazing geometry works that included the influential 'Elements', which remained the main textbook for teaching mathematics until around the early 20th century.
- The D.C. in Washington D.C. stands for District of Columbia.
- Scotland has 421 words for snow.
- The first sailing boats were built in Egypt.
- Baboons were once trained by Egyptians to wait on tables.
- A bolt of lightning can reach roughly 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Green tea has 50% more vitamin C than black tea.
- There are 31,556,926 seconds in a year.
- Commercial airplanes maintain a cabin pressure of about 6,400 feet (just over 1 mile) above sea level.
- The center of the Sun is approximately 15 million C (27 million F).
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