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From Wikipedia's " Did You Know" archives:
- ... that the world's largest mathematical experiment, designed by Brian Butterworth, found women to be faster than men at subitizing?
- ... that Khmer numerals were the first material evidence of the figure zero as a numerical figure?
- ... that in the English plural, the letter -s is pronounced differently in words like "cats", "cabs", and "buses", because of a phonological rule?
- ...that the 2005 movie The Interpreter by film director Sydney Pollack was based on real-life conference interpreters from the United Nations Interpretation Service?
- ... that Samuel Taylor Coleridge spelled William Shakespeare's last name as " Shakspere"?
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Hooks
From Wikipedia's " Did You Know" archives:
- ... that the world's largest mathematical experiment, designed by Brian Butterworth, found women to be faster than men at subitizing?
- ... that Khmer numerals were the first material evidence of the figure zero as a numerical figure?
- ... that in the English plural, the letter -s is pronounced differently in words like "cats", "cabs", and "buses", because of a phonological rule?
- ...that the 2005 movie The Interpreter by film director Sydney Pollack was based on real-life conference interpreters from the United Nations Interpretation Service?
- ... that Samuel Taylor Coleridge spelled William Shakespeare's last name as " Shakspere"?