- On your birthday you share it with 9 million others.
- The term 'disc jockey' was first used in 1937.
- Wooly mammoths grew as tall as 14 feet, weighing 10 tons. Mammoths used tusks for protection and to attract mates.
- In the 17th century Galileo Galilei and Johannes Kepler made important discoveries relating to planetary motion and orbits.
- The summer solstice marks the first day of summer and the longest day of the year.
- A panda is not a bear and actually in the raccoon family. Koalas are marsupials.
- Born in 1882, Emmy Noether was a German mathematician who made important contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics, described by Einstein as the most important woman in the history of mathematics.
- The average person falls asleep in 7 minutes.
- There are 31,536,000 seconds in a year.
- A camel can shut its nostrils during a desert sandstorm.
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