Fun Facts

[parrotthepolly]

Percentages are reversible.
7% of 25 = 1.75
25% of 7 = 1.75

 

[Shaylee]

Percentages are reversible.
7% of 25 = 1.75
25% of 7 = 1.75

I’ve been sitting here and playing with this with 1000 different numbers it feels like for the last 15 minutes

 

[Shaylee]

The University of Oxford is older than the Aztec Empire. The University of Oxford first opened its doors to students all the way back in 1096. By comparison, the Aztec Empire is said to have originated with the founding of the city of Tenochtitlán at Lake Texcoco by the Mexica, which occurred in the year 1325.

The University of Oxford Is Older Than the Aztec Empire and Other Facts That Will Change Your Perspective on History

The historical timeline you keep in your head might not be as accurate as you think

www.smithsonianmag.com

 

[Shaylee]

The early Greeks believed redheads would turn into vampires. As a redhead who likes Anne Rice novels and True Blood, I am not against this idea!

Genetics: the Common Thread of Redheads, St. Patrick, Vampires and Culture - WTOP News

To most Americans, St. Patrick's Day conjures the image of the Irish leprechaun with red hair, drinking a pint of beer and sitting next to a pot of gold underneath a rainbow. For some individuals…

wtop.com

 

[Rose White]

Detroit is north of Canada

 

[Rose White]

Old English, also called Anglo-Saxon, had two words for male: “mann” which could also mean all humans and “wæpenmann” which meant person with a weapon and/or a penis.

The word woman comes from wifmann, meaning wife-person. So “man” was originally a genderless word meaning person.

 

[Freddyt]

Detroit is north of Canada

The southernmost part of Canada (Bass Island's) are south of the norther border of California.

 

[Jade-]

Snails have thousands of microscopic teeth arranged in rows on a flexible band called a radula. The radula is made of chitin, making it feel like sandpaper

 

[Jade-]

The average person:
-Produces enough saliva to fill 500 bathtubs in their lifetime.
-Will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the Earth in their lifetime
-Blinks around 14-17 times per minute
and
-Has a unique tongue print, just like fingerprints

 

[parrotthepolly]

If it's written in words, no number under 'one thousand' contains the letter A.

 

[Friday]

If it's written in words, no number under 'one thousand' contains the letter A.

A score? (20) A dozen? (12) A hundred? (100)

 

[Dark.Green.Feathers]

Snails have thousands of microscopic teeth arranged in rows on a flexible band called a radula. The radula is made of chitin, making it feel like sandpaper

Cephalopods also have radula (radulae?)