Weird Fact Café

Mathematics Weird Facts

56

Zero Was Invented Twice Separately

24

Chess Has More Possible Games

54

Paper Folding Reaches The Moon

50

Sunflowers Follow Fibonacci Spirals

41

Pi Appears In River Lengths

67

The Fibonacci Sequence Appears in Rabbit Populations

51

A Nanosecond Is to One Second What One Second Is to 31.7 Years

78

The Infinity Symbol Has an Official Name

31

The Word Algorithm Is Named After a Persian Mathematician

42

A Leap Year Does Not Occur Every Four Years Without Exception

30

There Are More Possible Chess Games Than Atoms in the Observable Universe

54

Fibonacci Numbers Appear Throughout Nature

83

The Number 7 Is Considered the Most Popular Lucky Number Worldwide

56

There Are More Ways to Shuffle a Deck of Cards Than Atoms on Earth

40

The Birthday Paradox Defies Intuition