Fun fact about Mathematics part - 2

 11. The spiral shapes of sunflowers, snails and shells follow the Fibonacci sequence, where the two previous numbers are added together to get the next. (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34…)

12. Fancy a game of Go Fish? If you shuffle a pack of cards properly, there’s a good chance the exact order of the cards you have in your hands has never been seen in the history of the universe

13. If you’re taking a vacation to Hawaii, watch out for volcanoes! The temperature of lava in the tubes of a Hawaiian volcano is around 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit.

14. When Canada geese migrate south for the winter and north for the summer, they fly 2,000 to 3,000 thousand miles. If the weather is good, they can travel up to 1,500 miles in one day!

15. There are approximately 153,237 convenience stores in the United States. How convenient!

16. 70% of the earth’s surface is covered in water. However, only 3% of the earth’s water is freshwater and two-thirds of freshwater is frozen in ice sheets and glaciers. The other third is found in lakes, rivers and underground. 

17. People tend to have about 100,000 hairs on their head, and you can lose around 50 to 100 hairs every day.

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18. On March 14th, light from the sun takes approximately 495 seconds, or 8 minutes and 15 seconds, to reach us on earth.  

19. Back in a jiffy? You’d better be fast! A “jiffy” is an actual length of time, equal to about 1/100th of a second

20. The radius of the moon is approximately 1,079.6 miles. (Try using π to find the circumference — March 14th is also Pi Day!)

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