- The Colgate toothpaste company started out making starch, soap, and candles.
- VHS stands for Video Home System.
- 70% of all Irish barley grown goes towards the production of Guinness beer.
- Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras lived around the year 500 BC and is known for his Pythagorean theorem relating to the three sides of a right angle triangle: a^2 + b^2 = c^2.
- The Olympic flag was designed in 1913.
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