TRIVIAS

MATH Trivia

DID YOU KNOW!! 40 when written "forty" is the only number with letters in alphabetical order, while "one" is the only one with letters in reverse order. 

142857 is a cyclic number, i.e., its digits are rotated around when multiplied by any number from 1 to 6. Like this:

142857 × 1 =  142857 
142857 × 5 = 7 14285
142857 × 4 = 57 1428
142857 × 6 = 857 142
142857 × 2 = 2857 14
142857 × 3 = 42857 1 

1089 multiplied by 9 gives an exact reverse: 9801. 

From 0 to 1,000, the letter "A" only appears in 1,000 ("one thousand"). 

2 is called the "oddest" Even-Prime number. 

2 is a unique Even-Prime because while all Evens are divisible by 2, any number apart from 2 that is divisible by 2, is not a Prime.

1 × 9 + 2 = 11
 12 × 9 + 3 = 111
123 × 9 + 4 = 1111

... and so on.  

SCIENCE Trivia

 A kind of jellyfish (Turritopsis nutricula) upon reaching adulthood can transform itself back to childhood by converting its cells. It may repeat this to live forever. 

To avoid predators, a mother Slow Loris licks its offspring with poison before sending them off to search for food.

The fungus Cordyceps is able to "mind-control" other insects like ants to climb plants and attach there to become its food. 

The biggest egg in the world is the ostrich egg. It could take as many as 30 chicken eggs to equal its volume, and up to 2 hours to hard boil.

 

The largest frog in the world is The Goliath Frog of Gabon in West Africa and can grow as big as 33cm long and up to 3kg heavy.   
ENGLISH Trivia

• Underground is the only word in the English language that
  begins and ends with the letters “und.”
• There are only four words in the English language which end
  in”-dous” tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
• Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the
  left hand. (On a QWERTY keyboard)
• Facetious and abstemious contain all the vowels in the correct
  order, as does arsenious, meaning “containing arsenic.”
• The combination ough can be pronounced in nine different
  ways.The following sentence contains them all “A rough-coated,
  dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough;
after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.”

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