Food Facts

• To make one kilo of honey bees have to visit 4 million flowers, traveling a distance equal to 4 times around the earth.
• Three quarters of fish caught are eaten - the rest is used to make things such as glue, soap, margarine and fertilizer.
• Milk chocolate was invented by Daniel Peter, who sold the concept to his neighbour Henri Nestlé.
• Botanically speaking, the banana is a herb and the tomato is a fruit.
  The can opener was invented 48 years after cans were introduced.
  Over the last 40 years food production actually increased faster than population.
• Over 90% of all fish caught are caught in the northern hemisphere.
  Vitamin A is known to prevent "night blindness," and carrots are loaded with Vitamin A. One carrot provides more than 200% of recommended daily intake of Vitamin A.
• Carrots have zero fat content.
  
  
  

Facts !!!!

• Honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life. What about milk you say? A
  cow has to eat grass to produce milk and grass is living.
• There are more chickens than people in the world.
• The longest one-syllable word in the English language is "screeched."
  
• No word in the English language rhymes with "month"
• It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
• Stewardesses" is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
  
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1=0 !!!!!

The following is a "proof" that one equals zero.

Consider two non-zero numbers x and y such that

x = y.
Then x² = xy.
Subtract the same thing from both sides:
x² - y² = xy - y².
Dividing by (x-y), obtain
x + y = y.
Since x = y, we see that
2 y = y.
Thus 2 = 1, since we started with y nonzero.
Subtracting 1 from both sides,
1 = 0.

What's wrong with this "proof"?

The Math Behind the Fact:
The problem with this "proof" is that if x=y, then x-y=0. Notice that halfway through our "proof" we divided by (x-y).

Remember : This is a reminder for students to always check when they are dividing by unknown variables for cases where the denominator might be zero.

Math Facts

Multiplication by 11 is easy! To multiply by a 2-digit number add the two digits and place the sum in between!

25 x 11 = 275
31 x 11 = 341
57 x 11 = 627 <-- you need to carry the 1!

What about a 3-digit number? Can you figure out what's going on here?

253 x 11 = 2783
117 x 11 = 1287
532 x 11 = 5852
267 x 11 = 2937

FACTs

• Your stomach produces a new layer of mucus every two weeks -otherwise it will digest itself.
• 40% of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.
• Every person has a unique tongue print.
• On average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.
• Chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system; a few ounces will kill a small sized dog.
• Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.
• There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

Fast Facts

• Mammals are the only animals with flaps around the ears.
• A house fly lives only 14 days.
• There are about one billion cattle in the world of which 200 million are in India.
• The bee hummingbird of Cuba is the smallest bird in the world.
• Pea crabs (the size of a pea) are the smallest crabs in the world.
• The pig is rated the fourth most intelligent animal but are mentioned only twice in the Bible
• Sheep are mentioned 45 times and goats 88 times in the Bible. Dogs are mentioned 14 times and lions 89 times, but domestic cats are not mentioned.
• A giraffe can clean its ears with its 50cm (20 in) tongue.
• Dolphins can reach 60 km/h (37 mph).
• Sharks are immune to all known diseases.
• The heart of a blue whale is the size of a small car.

Useless Facts

• The ZIP in “ZIP code” means Zoning Improvement Plan.
• Coca-Cola contained Coca (whose active ingredient is cocaine) from 1885 to 1903.
• A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continuously from the bottom of the glass to the top.
• It’s estimated that at any one time around 0.7% of the world’s population is drunk.
• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades = David ; Clubs = Alexander the Great ; Hearts = Charlemagne ; Diamonds = Caesar
• Every person, including identical twins, has a unique eye and tongue print along with their finger print.
• 315 entries in Webster’s 1996 dictionary were misspelled.
• The “save” icon in Microsoft Office programs shows a floppy disk with the shutter on backwards.