- Bees and house flies flap their wings 200 times a second.
- In eastern Africa you can buy beer brewed from bananas.
- Bernhard Riemann was an influential German mathematician who contributed to differential geometry and analysis, paving the way for the development of general relativity by Albert Einstein.
- U.S. paper currency isn't made of paper u2013 it's actually a blend of cotton and linen.
- Men are stuck by lightning 7 times more than women.
- The number Pi (the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle) can't be expressed as a fraction, making it an irrational number. It never repeats and never ends when written as a decimal.
- Carrots contain 0% fat.
- Before 1850 golf balls were made of leather and were stuffed with feathers.
- Unless food is mixed with saliva you can't taste it.
- A nanosecond is one billionth of a second.
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