- The $ sign was introduced in 1788.
- A panda is not a bear and actually in the raccoon family. Koalas are marsupials.
- A 'googolplex' is the number 1 followed by a googol zeros, a number so ridiculously big that it can't be written because there literally isn't enough room in the entire universe to fit it in!.
- Butterflies can taste with their hind feet.
- The aphid insect is born pregnant.
- House cats have 18 claws.
- Fresh apples float because 25 percent of their volume is air.
- It is illegal to play annoying games in the street in the UK.
- 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.
- About 1/3 of your taste buds are numbed while flying.
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