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The naming of tropical storms and hurricanes officially began in 1953. John Cadbury founded the Cadbury chocolate company in England in 1842 producing the first chocolate bars. The surface area of a brick is 79 cm squared. The atomic symbol for iron is Fe (the original name for iron was Ferric). Only pregnant females polar bears hibernate. Gunpowder is formed by mixing charcoal, saltpetre and sulphur. The softest known mineral is talc. 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. Isaac Newton discovered the laws of physics and brought together many important concepts of infinitesimal calculus. The Moons diameter is 3,476km. reload more facts