- The doorbell was invented in 1831.
- Months that start on a Sunday will always have a Friday the 13th.
- 42% of men and women 25% don't wash their hands after using a public toilet.
- That in the 17th century the value of pi was known to 35 decimal places (today to 1.2411 trillion).
- Honey enters your blood stream within 20 minutes of being eaten.
- The term 007 was derived from 20007, the home zip code of many Washington, D.C. agents.
- You can start a fire with ice.
- Archimedes of Syracuse lived around the year 250 BC and played a large role in the history of geometry including a method for determining the volume of objects with irregular shapes.
- In American supermarkets peanut butter is one of the most frequently purchased items.
- The name of the popular search engine 'Google' came from a misspelling of the word 'googol', which is a very large number (the number one followed by one hundred zeros to be exact).
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