- More people are killed from bees than snakes.
- More people are killed by hippopotamuses then by lions, elephants and water buffalos combined.
- The golden ratio of approximately 1.618 between two quantities such as lengths often appears in nature (tree branching, uncurling ferns, pine cone arrangements etc) and has been used throughout history to create aesthetically pleasing designs and art works such as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa..
- A full moon is 9 times brighter than a half moon.
- Born in 1953, British mathematician Andrew Wiles is most famous for proving Fermat's Last Theorem..
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