- Blue and white are the most common school colors.
- The first hot air balloon passengers were a sheep, duck, and rooster.
- Most spiders have transparent blood.
- The Arctic Ocean is the smallest in the world.
- Sir Isaac Newton was 23 when he discovered the law of gravity.
- 1 googol is the number 1 followed by 100 zeros.
- Babylonians measured the circumference of a circle as approximately 3 times the diameter, which is fairly close to today's measurement which uses the value of Pi (around 3.14).
- The film 'Mary Poppins' was filmed entirely indoors.
- People who work at night tend to weigh more.
- In 1642 French mathematician Blaise Pascal invented the mechanical calculator.
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