24 Math and Science Facts People Can Never Forget
‘The sum of all the whole numbers between 1 and 100 is 5050’
We all, at least barring homeschooling or a strange, feral wolf-boy situation, learn science and math growing up. But apparently, some people choose to actually store that knowledge, instead of immediately jettisoning it in favor of Simpsons quotes. Personally, I would respond to the label “a math or science fact you’ll never forget” with “give it your best shot.”
Nevertheless, somebody needs to send rockets to space, so there are people who devote their lives to these pursuits. In a Reddit thread, they locked and loaded their absolute stickiest science and math facts and fired them off, hoping they would lodge in a layman’s brain. The best are below — and I’ve already forgotten most of them.
The idiots win again!
